The Art Newspaper

Senay Boztas, Mauritshuis able to keep its Rembrandts following legal dispute

Anni Irish, New documentary captures two art critics at a turning point

Angella d’Avignon, Getty launches art-focused meditation podcast

Annabel Keenan, Frankenthaler Foundation awards $4.5m across 83 institutions in latest round of climate grants

Carlie Porterfield, Buyers snap up blue-chip works at Art Basel’s opening day

Alexander Morrison, In Pictures: highlights from Art Basel’s Unlimited section, focused on monumental projects

Alexander Morrison, Uganda’s Umoja Art Gallery team forced to cancel attendance at Africa Basel fair after visas denied

Alexandre Crochet, Maze Design Basel fair returns for second edition with more exhibitors—and art

Shanti Escalante De Mattei, First Swiss edition of Zero 10, Art Basel’s digital art initiative, explores medium’s ‘historical arc’

Fred Voon, New York’s oldest museum votes for democracy with new wing

Artforum

Georgica Pettus, Controlling Time, Being Super Hot, and Walking Very, Very Fast: Georgica Pettus Names Her Fancies

Barry Schwabsky, Rococo Revival: Karla Black’s Ornate Minimalism Raids the Cosmetic Kit

From the Editors, Frankenthaler Foundation Awards $4.5 Million in Grants for Climate Action at Cultural Institutions

Artnet

Margaret Carrigan and Jo Lawson-Tancred, At Art Basel, Everyone Is Playing It Safe, Eying Market Recovery

Ann Hirsch, Refik Anadol’s Dataland Leaves Contemporary Art in the Dust

Andrew Russeth, Art Basel’s Unlimited Sector for Giant-Sized Projects: By the Numbers

Vittoria Benzine, Artist Accuses TikTok Star Devon Rodriguez of Copying His Knicks Artwork

Vittoria Benzine, Lost Roman Villa Uncovered After ‘Clandestine’ Excavation

Richard Whiddington, Martin Margiela’s Long-Hidden Personal Archive Hits the Auction Block

Jo Lawson-Tancred, In Basel, Art From Supported Studios Is Finally Getting Its Due

Margaret Carrigan, A Once-Withdrawn Schiele Gets a Second Chance

ARTnews

Devorah Lauter, Galleries Report Lots of Activity at Art Basel’s VIP Preview: ‘As Strong a First Day As We’ve Ever Had’

Maximilíano Durón, Soyoung Yoon to Lead Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program

Andy Battaglia, Christie’s to Open Wine Shop at Rockefeller Center in New York

Brian Boucher, See Obama Center’s Newest Artistic Commissions, Including Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Portrait of the Former First Couple

Tessa Solomon, D.C. Preservationists Sue to Halt Trump’s Sculpture ‘Garden of American Heroes’

Anne Doran, Two 1,700-Year-Old Roman Marble Statues Surface Inside an Ancient Wine Vat in Israel

Devorah Lauter, In Our Current Climate Crisis, Angelica Mesiti Asks How Can We Re-Tune Ourselves

Sarah Belmont, The Best Large-Scale Works at Art Basel Unlimited 2026, From a Deconstructed Airplane to Mounds of Hospital Bedsheets

Shanti Escalante De Mattei, The Performance Lecture Is the Perfect Art Form for the Influencer Age

Rachel Cormack, Phillips Just Had the Highest Grossing Watch Auction in US History at $75.8 M.

Rachel Cormack, Former Patek President Philippe Stern, One of the Watch World’s Most Influential People, Has Died

Brian Boucher, Trump’s Name Is Off the Kennedy Center. Why Is the Facade Still Covered with a Tarp?

Leigh Anne Miller, Ye, aka Kanye West, Spotted at Art Basel

ArtReview

Mark Rappolt, ‘Spectrosynthesis Seoul’ Defends Reading Art Through Biography

From the Editors, Soyoung Yoon appointed director of Whitney’s Independent Study Program

From the Editors, Florence Ostende goes to Guggenheim Bilbao

From the Editors, Russian artist gunned down in Poland

Financial Times

Caroline Roux, Art’s greatest subject? Death

Frieze

Lou Selfridge, Vibeke Tandberg Has the Last Laugh

Alastair Curtis, Andrew Heard’s Sly, Satirical Paintings

Susan Finlay, A Techno-Themed Show’s Generative Final Stop

The Guardian

Veronica Esposito, ‘There’s a kind of magic to her work’: Maren Hassinger’s one-of-a-kind sculptures

Hyperallergic

Hakim Bishara, Claire Valdez Wants to Be Your Artist in Congress

Isa Farfan, House Proposes Slashing Major Arts Education Grant

Aaron Short, Kaleidoscopic Subway Mosaics Celebrate Flatbush’s Theater History

Rhea Nayyar, Whitney Names New Director of Independent Study Program

Aruna D’Souza, “Helter Skelter” Can’t Look America in the Eye

The New York Times

Walker Mimms, In 30,000 Gallons of Water, Hundreds of Bowls Play Music of the Spheres

Travis Diehl, Bruce Nauman on How to Make Art: Don’t Try

The New Yorker

Rebecca Mead, David Hockney’s Hidden Depths

Observer

Elisa Carollo, New York’s Design Sales Offered a Clearer Picture of What Serious Collectors Want

Jasmine Lobe, Performa’s Broadway Benefit Brought Fresh Magic to an Old Format

EDITOR’S PICK - Elisa Carollo, At Liste Basel, Market Trends Give Way to Explorations of Contemporary Anxiety. The strongest response was seen in booths showcasing informed, materially engaged practices that felt urgent given current social conditions rather than merely aligned with a particular market moment.

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, New feathered dinosaur surfaces at a Chinese site famous for early birds

Adam Schrader, School of Visual Arts names interim president as deficits deepen

Adam Schrader, America’s Tapestry stitches the Revolution’s unsung figures

Adam Schrader, Njideka Akunyili Crosby paints the Obamas’ first official dual portrait

Adam Schrader, Artist Pablo Helguera wants your records to build a Latin music archive

The Wall Street Journal

Kelly Crow, The Must-See Artworks Inside the Obama Presidential Center

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Apollo Magazine

From the Editors, Russian air-strikes set historic Kyiv monastery on fire

Irina Dumitrescu, The furious creativity of Matisse’s final years

Christopher Turner, A forgotten modernist masterpiece in Vienna reopens

Art Asia Pacific

Kalani Ko, Gwangju Biennale Seeks 2028 Artistic Director Through Open Call

Emmanuele Richter, Apichatpong Weerasethakul Awarded France’s Legion of Honor

The Art Newspaper

Sophia Kishkovsky, Russian drone attack on Ukraine damages several cultural sites

Gameli Hamelo, Nigerian artist Omolola Coker wins inaugural Myma Art Prize

Gareth Harris, Government-funded mobile museum to tour national collections across England

Jori Finkel, In museum first, MFA Boston pairs prized vessels by Paul Revere and enslaved artist David Drake

Anna Brady, Surprise! New Art Basel initiative, Basel Exclusive, brings back the art of anticipation to the fair

Anzhela Khachaturova, Before the fair rolls up: there is more to Basel’s cultural scene than one frenetic week in June

Georgina Adam, ‘Some works connect with me naturally and instantly’: Pinyuan Li on the art she collects and why

Lee Cheshire, In pictures: the best of Art Basel’s city-wide Parcours exhibition

Dale Berning Sawa, Ibrahim Mahama: ‘All these things are the stains; they are part of the story’

Vivienne Chow, Asian antiquities are gaining a younger following—will it last?

Jori Finkel, In museum first, MFA Boston pairs prized vessels by Paul Revere and enslaved artist David Drake

Artforum

Red Cameron, Before and After: A Succinct show of Paintings by Al Held tracks the Artist’s Unexpected Response to the New World of Images

From the Editors, Eleventh-Century Cathedral Burns in Kyiv Following Russian Drone Strike

From the Editors, Frank Bowling Foundation To Formally Launch In London On June 24

From the Editors, Thai Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul Awarded France’s Legion of Honor

From the Editors, Ex-Director of MAM Rio Fined for Saying Museum Lacked Fire Insurance

Artnet

Andrew Russeth, Art Basel’s Unlimited Sector for Giant-Sized Projects: By the Numbers

Ben Davis, What’s Going on With the Met’s Odd New Giacometti Show?

Jo Lawson-Tancred, In Basel, Art From Supported Studios Is Finally Getting Its Due

Vittoria Benzine, Russian Strike Damages Ukrainian Monastery, Art Museum

Richard Whiddington, Archaeologists Uncover Rare Porcelain Cargo From Mysterious Shipwreck

Vittoria Benzine, Diane Keaton Estate Sale Nets $4.2M, Led by Original ‘Annie Hall’ Script

ARTnews

Daniel Cassady, Brice Marden Spent Sixty Years Chasing the Same Question. A New Gagosian Survey Shows the Results

EDITOR’S PICK - Devorah Lauter, After Years of Uncertainty, Dealers Ready for Art Basel With Cautious Optimism: For many galleries, a strong showing at Art Basel can be the difference between a good and a bad year. That makes Tuesday’s VIP preview a very big day.

Tessa Solomon, Kennedy Center Establishes New Endowment in President Trump’s Name

Andy Battaglia, Artist Puts Vandalized Self-Portrait on View at Houston Museum of African American Culture

Leigh Anne Miller, London’s Jewish Museum Reopens in Temporary Location After Three Years

Harrison Jacobs, Art Basel’s Vincenzo De Bellis on ‘Basel Exclusive,’ Price Freezes, and Why the Fair Is Getting Even More Global

Anne Doran, Tunnels From Henry VIII’s Palace of Beaulieu Found Beneath an English Boarding School

Brian Boucher, This Bottle of Rare Japanese Whisky Sold for a Record-Setting $1 M. in Hong Kong

Leigh Anne Miller, Expansive Show Focusing on Willem de Kooning’s Drawings Opens at the Art Institute of Chicago

ArtReview

Mark Rappolt, A Kantian Enquiry of Ju Young Kim

Alexander Leissle, Raising the Volume on Conceptual Video Art

From the Editors, Cartoonist Joe Sacco claims Penguin India “looking for excuses” to scrap politically sensitive book

BOMB

Joel Danilewitz, Sue Tompkins by Joel Danilewitz

Shraddha Ramani & William Villalongo, Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century

Nancy Grossman, An Oral History Project Excerpt with Debra Priestly by Nancy Grossman

Lara Mimosa Montes, Lotus L. Kang by Lara Mimosa Montes

Katherine Cheairs, An Oral History Project Excerpt with Reverend Joyce McDonald by Katherine Cheairs

Margaret Carrigan, Saint Spot Encounters the Macular Microfauna

The Brooklyn Rail

Austin Hayden Smidt, The Protestant War Ethic

Peter St. Clair, Anti-Capitalism, a Global Future

Cultured

Sophia Cohen, After a Whirlwind Few Years, Anna Weyant Is Content to Live in Her Dollhouse World

Isabella Bernstein, Headed to Art Basel? Make Time for These 10 Shows Outside the Fair

Financial Times

Melanie Gerlis, ‘Philanthropy isn’t an act of kindness, it is a power’ — collector Anastasia Bukhman

The Guardian

David Smith, ‘This will be timeless’: what art can we expect from Chicago’s $850m Obama Presidential Center?

Eddy Frankel, Hold to This Earth review – an explosion of anger as Indigenous America shakes up Yorkshire

Jarred McGinnis, From cool Marseille to a photo-feast in Arles – an art trail through Provence

Jonathan Jones, Anish Kapoor review – this gutsy, gore-splattered show is a divine bloodbath

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, 30 Must-See Art Shows in New York City This Summer

Isa Farfan, Celebrating the Knicks Win, One Stitch at a Time

Isa Farfan, The Obamas Unveil First-Ever Official Dual Portrait

Paddy Johnson, Art Problems: Are My Friends Using Me to Get Shows?

Rhea Nayyar, Historic Kyiv Cathedral Ablaze After Russian Strikes

Julie Mehretu, Processing the Unbearable, Imagining the Radical

The Los Angeles Times

Jane Horowitz, LACMA takes its celebration to the streets with a massive art parade down Wilshire Boulevard

Observer

Henry Roberts, For David Hockney, Looking Was Living

Elisa Carollo, Ho Jae Kim’s Civil Art Returns to Christie’s With a Million-Dollar Milestone in Sight

Elisa Carollo, Francesca Mollett’s Architecture of Abstraction

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Airmail

Patricia Zohn, Barbara Hepworth’s True Colors

Art in America

Leah Ollman, Jenny Calivas Buries Herself in Sand—and Reinvents Photography From the Ground Up

Eugenie Brinkema, Why the Tragicomic Feels Like the Most Honest Aesthetic Now

The Art Newspaper

Louisa Buck, Anish Kapoor: ‘Just because a thing is big, it doesn’t mean it’s of any interest or even good’

Gareth Harris, The art world honours David Hockney, ‘who flew the flag higher than any other British artist’

Kabir Jhala, Tea company’s collection of South Asian Modern art soars at Christie’s London

Louisa Buck, Glasgow International 2026 offers reminder of city’s cultural power at a challenging time

Artforum

The New York Board of Taste, The New York Board of Taste Discusses Disco History, Andrew Durbin, and the Capriciousness of Destiny

From the Editors, “The Art of the Game” Brings Work by 23 Artists To New York and New Jersey for the World Cup

From the Editors, David Hockney, Master Painter of Modern Life, Dead at 88

From the Editors, Charleston’s International African American Museum To Furlough Staff Amid Funding Shortages

From the Editors, Photographer-Provocateur Duane Michals Dies at 94

Artnet

Katya Kazakina, What Comes After Grow-or-Go? How Goodman Gallery Changed Course

Min Chen, How the Bruce Springsteen Center Is Telling the Story of American Music

Andrew Russeth, It’s a Nightclub, a Book Fair, a Sauna, an Art Show, and More. It’s Basel Social Club!

Margaret Carrigan, The Art World Is Great at Spotting Talent. Keeping It? Not So Much.

Ben Davis, What Was the Art World Like the Last Time the Knicks Were in the Championship?

Vittoria Benzine, The Art World Remembers David Hockney: ‘A True Lover of Life’

Katie White, Artist Kohei Nawa Brings His Pixelated Menagerie to Los Angeles

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Frank Bowling Foundation Launches—and More Art Industry News

Richard Whiddington, Christie’s London Sale Confirms Growing Appetite for South Asian Art

Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, The Art Trade’s Talent Problem

Richard Whiddington, The Wit and Wisdom of David Hockney

ARTnews

Daniel Cassady, Leonardo Drew Joins Hauser & Wirth for Worldwide Representation

Tessa Solomon, Almine Rech Announces Collaboration with the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada

Harrison Jacobs, The Most Expensive Works by David Hockney Sold at Auction

Anne Doran, AI Just Helped Identify a Long-Lost F.C.B. Cadell Painting Bought for Under $100

Harrison Jacobs, Steven Adrian Stewart, Founder of Kansas Gallery, Dead at 46

Leigh Anne Miller, World Cup Fever: Soccer Balls Designed by Futura 2000, Katherine Bernhardt, Hank Willis Thomas, and 20 Other Contemporary Artists Have Been Installed Around New York and New Jersey

From the Editors, Prolific Armenian Painter Haroutiun Galentz is Making a Comeback Across Europe

Maximilíano Durón, Trump Administration Plans Year-Round Construction for Triumphal Arch

ArtReview

Lydia Eliza Trail, Recession Indicator Art

Fi Churchman, Saodat Ismailova: Nothing Disappears Completely

Qingyuan Deng, Oototol, Indonesia’s Unknown Bard

From the Editors, Cartoonist Joe Sacco claims Penguin India “looking for excuses” to scrap politically sensitive book

The Brooklyn Rail

Andrew Paul Woodbright, Amorelle Jacox: Mothers of Time

Frederique Joseph-Lowery, Dalí: The Great Years, 1929–1939

Scarlet Cheng, Miguel Soler-Roig: Nostalgic memory of my Life Before Birth

Madelyn Santorelli, Cassandra Mayela Allen: Aquel Amplex

Jad Jari, War and the Production of Space: Notes from Beirut

Financial Times

Tom Faber, Oliver Beer: the artist who makes ancient cave paintings sing

Mark C O’Flaherty, Nina Hamnett – art’s unsung ‘Queen of Bohemia’

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, Anish Kapoor review – this gutsy, gore-splattered show is a divine bloodbath

Andrew Gilchrist, ‘I call this dish Frida Kahlo Against the World. It’s hot and horny!’ My thrilling week of Fridamania in Mexico City

Lanre Bakare, Photographer Don McCullin to focus on Vietnam for his final book

Jonathan Jones, ‘His last kiss to the world’: David Hockney’s return to Yorkshire triggered a glorious reawakening

Ella Baron, Ella Baron on David Hockney – cartoon

Hyperallergic

Lisa Yin Zhang, Painter David Hockney, Who Made the Everyday Otherworldly, Dies at 88

Eileen G’Sell, “I Shot Andy Warhol” Upends the Myth of the Great Man

Rhea Nayyar, 25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250

Rhea Nayyar, Knicks and Spurs Game Gets an Arts Wager

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel

The Los Angeles Times

Kevin Baxter, L.A. museum highlights Jewish roots that shaped world’s most popular soccer styles

The New York Times

Derrick Bryson Taylor, Vandals Damage Work by Black Artist at Houston Museum, Officials Say

Zoë Lescaze, A History of American Utopia in 10 Acts

Silvia Benedetti, The 91-Year-Old Weaving Ancestral Tradition Into Art

Ana Ionova, Brazilians, Paintbrushes in Hand, Revive a World Cup Ritual

Observer

John Ball, What the Cultural Sector Got Wrong About the Philadelphia Museum of Art Rebrand

Christa Terry, €3.5 Million Raised in 20 Minutes: Inside the American Friends of Versailles Gala

Christa Terry, Our Favorite Looks from the Frick Collection Spring Garden Party

Stephen Reily and Sam Gill, How Can Philanthropy Help the Arts? By Fully Supporting Innovators

Brianna J. Heath, MOCAD’s Co-Directors On What a Museum Owes a Changing City

Elisa Carollo, The Future-Facing Museum Exhibitions Not to Miss in Basel

T Magazine

Max Lakin, The 1960s Artists Who Took Aim at MoMA

EDITOR’S PICK - Andrew Russeth, 8 Proposals for a Better Art World: Artists on what a more utopian version of their field might look like.

M.H. Miller, American Artists Are Still Looking for Utopia

Cassie Packard, ‘A Beautiful, Horny, Gorgeous, Stylish Time’: An Oral History of Casa de Estrogen

The Wall Street Journal

Dominic Green, Capturing the Men Who Lost the Revolution

From the Editors, Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of June 14

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Julia Bryan-Wilson, Rocío García

Apollo Magazine

Christina Makris, Marina Abramović is the toast of Tuscany

Michael Prodger, Vienna’s Albertina roars into the future

From the Editors, David Hockney dies at 88

Martin Gayford, Through a lens brightly: an interview with David Hockney

From the Editors, Four things to see: Mother and child

Art Asia Pacific

Beverly Yong, Valentine Willie, 1954–2026

From the Editors, Shows to See in Switzerland, June 2026

Aisha Traub Chan, New Currents: Melody Qingmei Li’s Porous Selves

Art in America

Emily Watlington, Is This the First Good Eco Art Survey?

Matthew Holman, David Hockney, an artist of brio and versatility, with global recognition beyond the art world, has died, aged 88

The Art Newspaper

Karen Chernick, Rescued mural depicting Alice’s adventures in New York wonderland back on view for first time in decades

Elena Goukassian, Drawings by Willem de Kooning, the ‘last Old Master’, take centre stage in Chicago show

Alexander Morrison, Edvard Munch’s chocolate factory series shines a light on the public artist he wanted to be

Gareth Harris, Child damages Magritte painting with pinecone

Maev Kennedy, ‘It’s a work of art’: rare, cloth-bound first edition of Wuthering Heights to be auctioned at Christie’s

Ben Luke, Pan-Africanism in London, the health benefits of art, Barbara Hepworth—podcast

Martin Bailey, Van Gogh’s wheatfields ‘under turbulent skies’

Claire Wrathall, Working in the fourth dimension: William Kentridge’s latest opera arrives at Glynbourne

Artforum

Oskar Oprey, Not on the guest list: London Gallery Weekend 2026

From the Editors, Phoenix Art Museum Receives 185 Indigenous Artworks in Major Gift

From the Editors, Iconoclastic Brussels Gallery Dépendance Goes Dark After 20+ Years

From the Editors, Frieze London, Frieze Masters Name Participants in 2026 Editions

From the Editors, Independent 20th Century Announces Details of 2026 Fair at the Breuer Building

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, David Hockney, Revolutionary and Beloved Painter, Dies at 88

Sonia Manalili and Ben Davis, Roberta Smith Still Has Notes

Vittoria Benzine, Inside the Artist Residency ‘Scandal’ Dividing the Internet

Min Chen, How Björk Turned Collaboration Into an Art Form

Margaret Carrigan, For JiaJia Fei, Making it in the Art World Means ‘Mission Over Permission’

Richard Whiddington, How A.I. Helped Identify a Lost Scottish Masterpiece

Richard Whiddington, The U.K. Rallied to Save a Barbara Hepworth Sculpture. Now It Anchors a Landmark Show

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Cleveland Museum of Art Plans $600 M. Fundraising Campaign to Sustain Museum’s Long-Term Health

Brian Boucher, Mickalene Thomas, Known for Her Glittering Depictions of Black Women, Joins Jack Shainman Gallery

Leigh Anne Miller, French Scientists Have Developed a New Technology To Help Identify Forged Artworks

Anne Doran, Metropolitan Museum of Art Repatriates Two Khmer Sculptures to Cambodia

Tessa Solomon, Citing Financial Trouble, Charleston’s International African American Museum to Furlough Staff

From the Editors, A First Look at the Big-Ticket Artworks that Galleries Are Bringing to Art Basel 2026

Luisa Zargani, Fendi Names Rome Gallery for Couture Show, Karl Lagerfeld Exhibition

Tessa Solomon, Crimean Museum Struck by Ukrainian Drone, Reportedly Damaging Collection

Maximilíano Durón, Duane Michals, Maker of Enigmatic Sequences of Images That Defied Photography’s Conventions, Dies at 94

Brian Boucher, See Never-Before-Shown Martin Wong Works, Now On View in a Show Of His Chinatown Paintings

Devorah Lauter, Dépendance Gallery To Close After 23 Years in Brussels

Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews & Artforum Partner to Launch First Ever Art Week in New York

ArtReview

Fi Churchman, Saodat Ismailova: Nothing Disappears Completely

Pat Gilmour, What Did Critics Think of a Young David Hockney?

From the Editors, David Hockney, giant of British art, 1937-2026

The Brooklyn Rail

Killian Wright Jackson, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Many A Moonlit Caveat

Noa Wynn, Francine Tint: Open Color

William Corwin, Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists

Faye Hirsch, Tessa Greene O’Brien: Poems from Here

Barbara A. MacAdam, Kati Henning: An Unquiet House

Family Style

Sahir Ahmed, Now, Therefore, I

Tara Anne Dalbow, In Flux

Financial Times

Dorian Lynskey, What the end of the world looks like, according to the most apocalyptic artists

Frieze

Tara Anne Dalbow, A Restaged and Expanded ‘Dynaton’ Looks Beyond the Edge of the Known

From the Editors, How The Curated Programme at Frieze Masters is Rewriting Art History

From the Editors, The Next Generation of Artists Lead Frieze London 2026

Agnish Ray, Felix Gonzalez-Torres Still Troubles the Political Present

Galerie

From the Editors, British Artist David Hockney Dies at 88

Celia McGee, Discover This Year’s East Hampton Art & Design Days

Gogo Taubman, Fujiko Nakaya Fills the Bourse de Commerce with Fog

The Guardian

Charles Darwent, David Hockney obituary

Time Jonze and Donna Ferguson, David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88

From the Editors, Share your tributes and memories of David Hockney

Jonathan Jones, Kapoor’s sublime spectacle, Hepworth’s sculpture sings and Hockney passes away – the week in art

Lauren Cochrane, Peroxide mop, statement specs, tweed suits and quirky Crocs: David Hockney’s genius for fashion

Hyperallergic

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Sarah Schulman’s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction

Valentina Di Liscia, Art Movements: Sam Gilliam Foundation Names Its First Director

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Required Reading

Rhea Nayyar, Charleston’s African American Museum Furloughs All Staff

Lori Waxman, A Better World at the Obama Center

Hrag Vartanian, They Want to Control Our Imagination

Isa Farfan, Painting “Intentionally” Defaced at Museum of African American Culture

The Los Angeles Times

Barbara Isenberg, David Hockney, whose art celebrated sun-drenched Los Angeles, dead at 88

Christopher Reynolds, At Riverside’s Mission Inn, former owner departs with historic art — and locals are outraged

Julius Miller, Woody Guthrie’s guitar, a Gettysburg photo: 5 must-sees at the Huntington’s new America 250 exhibit

MOMUS

Farrah Karapetian, Directly to the Adversary: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore at CAM St. Louis

The New York Times

EDITOR’S PICK - Holland Cotter, David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88: His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century.

Norman Rosenthal, What I Learned From David Hockney

Alex Marshall, With iPhones and Faxes, David Hockney Embraced Tech

Observer

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Zurbarán” at the National Gallery in London

Nathan Smith, Essential Queer Reading for Pride Month and Beyond

Elisa Carollo, What Do Next-Gen Collectors Want From the Art World?

Vulture

Jerry Saltz, How Pace Gallery Broke Itself

Wall Street Journal

Branda Cronin, David Hockney, a Trans-Atlantic Titan of Art, Dies at 88

Andrew Shea, ‘Michelangelo Rodin: Living Bodies’ Review: Sculpting Greatness at the Louvre

The Washington Post

Phil Davison, David Hockney, renowned artist who captured fleeting moments in vivid color, dies at 88

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Art in America

Emily Watlington, After Drawing Women Trapped in Labyrinths for Years, Kyung-Me Painted Herself Free

The Art Newspaper

Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, Shipwrecks linked to the ‘golden age of piracy’ discovered in the Bahamas

John-Paul Stonard, Comment | Georg Baselitz’s final exhibition is a warning that history is repeating itself

Hadani Ditmars, ‘Marks that speak across time’: rock carvings and drawings discovered in Oman

Susan Morris, New film about Leonora Carrington blends fact with fiction

Gabriella Angeleti, Former director of Rio’s Museu de Arte Moderna ordered to pay breach-of-contract fine

Carlie Porterfield, Independent 20th Century adds 75% more exhibitors as it moves to the Breuer Building

Dale Berning Sawa, Paris exhibition explores the vanishing worlds of photographer Madeleine de Sinéty

From the Editors, Influential art world figure Joe Hage moves from the shadows to take top billing

Artforum

Pablo Larios and Alexandre Estrella, The Catfish Knows First: Alexandre Estrela on His Art of Seismic Anticipation

Aaron Fagan, Some Fiction, Some Exposition: On Lynne Tillman’s Flaneurial Stories and Essays

From the Editors, Columbus Museum of Art Will Offer Free Admission for Visitors Aged 25 and Under as Part of New Initiative

From the Editors, 2026 Gwangju Biennale Announces Participants, Including Matthew Barney and CAMP

From the Editors, Phillips Collection Receives Historic $15 Million Gift

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Frieze London Returns With 172 Galleries—and a Few Notable Absences

Andrew Russeth, Dépendance, Maverick Brussels Gallery, Calls It Quits

Andrew Russeth, California Art Dealer Esther Kim Varet Falls Short in House Bid

Vittoria Benzine, Scientists Think They’ve Found a New Way to Spot Fake Van Goghs

Matthew Campbell, The Trade in Looted Antiquities Endures for One Reason: Demand

Richard Whiddington, Pope Leo Blesses Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia

Vittoria Benzine, Phillips Collection Receives Record $15M Gift

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Frieze Lines Up Nearly 300 Galleries for Its Two London Fairs in October

Harrison Jacobs, Gagosian and Olney Gleason to Present Solo Exhibition for Lee Krasner in France

Tessa Solomon, A Prized Lucian Freud Nude, Estimated at $47 M., is Poised to Break Records at Sotheby’s

Leigh Anne Miller, Valentine Willie, Visionary Advocate of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art, Dies at 71

George Nelson, ‘London Needs Some Lobbying’: 50,000 Attend London Gallery Weekend as Dealers Fight Narrative of City’s Decline

Brian Boucher, Sotheby’s London to Offer Two Monets With Blue-Chip Provenance, Estimated at up to $67 M.

Maximilíano Durón, Guggenheim Museum to Livestream Select World Cup Matches, Screen Art Film on Legendary Football Star Zinédine Zidane

Daniel Cassady, Independent 20th Century Heads to the Breuer With Its Biggest Edition Yet

Devorah Lauter, Pace Plans to Give Up 8,600-Square-Foot London Gallery as It Continues to Cut Costs

ArtReview

Martin Herbert, ‘Correctomundo: Selected Writings 2001–2026’ by Bruce Hainley, Reviewed

From the Editors, Gwangju Biennale 2026 announces artist list

From the Editors, Valentine Francis Willie, champion of Southeast Asian contemporary art, 1954–2026

From the Editors, Elfie Semotan, fashion photographer, 1941–2026

BOMB

Melissa Joseph, Kim Dacres by Melissa Joseph

Eliza Barry Callahan, Sophie Friedman-Pappas by Eliza Barry Callahan

The Brooklyn Rail

Marjorie Welish, Karla Black

Phong H. Bui, Matt Dillon: Porto-Novo to Abomey

Natalie Prizel, Leon Kossoff

Jason Rosenfeld, Manet & Morisot

Ara H. Merjian, Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds

Financial Times

Melanie Gerlis, Collector Christian Duerckheim: ‘I want a painting that nobody has seen before’

Christian House, The Antinoris once mingled with the Medicis — they’re still commissioning art today

Charlotte Jansen, Newcastle’s finest photographer: Tish Murtha by Kuba Ryniewicz

Frieze

Rebecca Anne Proctor, Can Figurative Abstraction Sway Historic Memory?

From the Editors, Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2026 Celebrate Global Artists and Histories

Justin Chance, Must-See: A Chaotic Show Pairs Dinosaur Fossils with Modern Sculpture

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, Hepworth in Colour review – salty Cornish seascapes compressed into immaculate sculptures

Lillian Wilkie, ‘She slept in the hallway on a lawn chair’: how Bettina’s astonishing art outgrew her Chelsea Hotel room

From the Editors, Don’t lose sight of the big picture in art galleries

Hettie Judah, ‘I’m carrying rage like a blood-filled egg’: the best of Glasgow International – review

Hyperallergic

Isa Farfan, Phoenix Art Museum Receives Largest Gift of Native American Works

Jennifer Samet, Beer With a Painter: Samia Halaby

Isa Farfan, Largest-Ever Arthur Jafa Survey Coming to New Museum

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Willie Valentine, Marjane Satrapi, and John Claridge

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, What Carmen Maria Machado Wants You to Know About Power

Chie Xu, An Artist Duo’s Haven of Synthetic Hair

The New York Times

Jason Farago, For Painting’s Great Skeptic, Gerhard Richter, History Is a Blur

Philip Gefter, Duane Michals, Artist of Wit and Courage

Nina Siegal, This Artist’s Face Is Her Canvas, and Her Calling Card

Jonathan Griffin, In the Fastest-Warming City in the U.S., These Artists See Hope

Malia Mendez, A.I. Chatbot Helps a $100 Thrift Store Painting Sell for Over $250,000

Observer

Christa Terry, Sébastien Léon’s Material Exploration

Jennifer Ashley Wright, How Pamela Harriman Became the Most Powerful Socialite in American Politics

Dan Duray, Séamus Kealy On Returning to Ireland, Artist-Centered Institutions and What the RHA Could Become

Caleb Anderson, Marteau & Co Is Bringing the Art World Model to Independent Watch Auctions

EDITOR’S PICK - Paco Barragán, The Crisis of the Museum Is the Crisis of the White Cube: What’s the use of decolonizing the canon, decolonizing the collection and decolonizing the program if we don’t decolonize the white cube itself—the container that still structures how art is seen, experienced, classified and legitimized?

Puck

Marion Maneker, Condition Report: Cybele Maylone, The Aldrich Museum

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Weekly Recap: A weirdly successful month, somehow

Adam Schrader, Dallas whale mural was covered by ads for years before FIFA dispute

Vanity Fair

Nate Freeman, At Prada Mode, a Brand Offers Conceptual Art, Punk Rock, and Katz’s Delicatessen

Wall Street Journal

Peter Plagens, ‘Kathy Butterly: Assume Yes’ Review: Diminutive, Not Diminished, Sculpture

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Art in America

Emily Watlington, Saidiya Hartman on Teaming Up with All-Star Artists to Imagine the End of White Supremacy

The Art Newspaper

Hadani Ditmars, International organisations and Lebanese culture ministry issue warnings amid Israeli capture of Beaufort Castle and strikes on Tyre

Aimee Dawson, Gaudí goes viral: TikTok partners with Sagrada Familia to livestream inauguration of finished tower

Gareth Harris, Victoria and Albert Museum to bring Istanbul to London in upcoming exhibition

Rachel Ashcroft, National Galleries of Scotland announces £56m funding boost for V&A East Storehouse-like gallery in Edinburgh

Gabriella Angeleti, The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC receives largest gift in museum’s history

Ben Luke, A brush with... Lisa Yuskavage—podcast

Artforum

From the Editors, Italian Arts Collectives Call For ‘General Cultural Strike’ On June 12

From the Editors, Galerie Templon Pares Back NYC Presence

From the Editors, Convicted Drents Museum Gold Thieves Must Serve 47 Months in Prison

From the Editors, Pine Cone–Wielding Child Damages Magritte Masterwork at Israel Museum

Artnet

Andrew Russeth, Lee Krasner Will Make Paris Debut via Gagosian, Olney Gleason

Vittoria Benzine, Amsterdam’s Grimm Gallery Expands With New Headquarters, Residency

Andrew Russeth, California Art Dealer Esther Kim Varet Falls Short in House Bid

Jo Lawson-Tancred, London’s Gallery Scene Is Full of Contradictions. Its Art Is, Too.

Margaret Carrigan, Sandra Jackson-Dumont Wants Museums to Survive. Things Have to Change

Vittoria Benzine, Steve Martin and Ann Philbin Team Up to Highlight Unsung Artist

ARTnews

From the Editors, Museum Rietberg’s A Kind of Paradise: Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art is Balm for the Scars of European Conquest

Daniel Cassady, How the Pace Layoffs Went Down—And What Comes Next

Tessa Solomon, Three Men Convicted in High-Profile Dutch Museum Heist of Ancient Romanian Gold

Leigh Anne Miller, Here is the Artist List for the 16th Gwangju Biennial

Anne Doran, MoMA to Present the First Survey of Piet Mondrian’s New York Paintings

Harrison Jacobs, Art News, Indeed: NBA Star Victor Wembanyama Prepped For Finals Game By Sketching in Gramercy

Brian Boucher, Boy Punctures Magritte’s ‘The Castle of the Pyrenees’ With a Pinecone at the Israel Museum

Tessa Solomon, Professor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago Under Investigation for Referencing Palestine

ArtReview

Jenny Wu, Notes from New York: The Art of War

Agnish Ray, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk: War in the Background

Sonja Teszler, Racheal Crowther: Smells Like Military-Industrial Complex

From the Editors, Gwangju Biennale 2026 announces artist list

From the Editors, Elfie Semotan, fashion photographer, 1941–2026

The Brooklyn Rail

Alfred Mac Adam, Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945–50

Alfred Mac Adam, Julian Schnabel: Italy Through Its Trees

Hearne Pardee, Philip Guston: Life with P.

Saul Ostrow, John Armleder: Ripple: Furniture Sculpture and Painting after 1982

Saul Ostrow, Katharina Fritsch

Cultured

From the Editors, Here’s What Art to See in New York Before the Wave of Summer Group Shows Hits

Danielle Mckinney, Artist Danielle Mckinney Explains the Story Behind Her Painting on CULTURED’s Cover

Financial Times

Caroline Roux, Do art museums need ‘botanical curators’?

Julie Belcove, Jenny Holzer found fame for her subversive slogans — now she’s turning FBI files into art

Frieze

Krzysztof Kościuczuk, The 7 Best Exhibitions to See in Basel and Zurich

The Guardian

Emma Madden, ‘It’s not about heroes and villains’: the triumphant return of long-lost indie I Shot Andy Warhol

Ben Eastham, ‘Making paintings at this moment is total folly’: the cosmic, chaotic art of Caragh Thuring

Jonathan Jones, Project a Black Planet review: spits out dreary academic theory where it should sing

Eddy Frankel, Cats, flowers and Harry Hill’s car on fire – RA Summer Exhibition review

From the Editors, Win a Tate membership, Tracey Emin merch and more

Hyperallergic

Lisa Yin Zhang, Nayland Blake Doesn’t Believe in Fixed Selves

Aaron Short, Artists Scramble to Rescue Works After Queens Building Fire

From the Editors, 7 Art Books You Should Read This Pride Month

Matt Stromberg, My Queasy, Forest-Scented Stroll Through LA’s New AI Art Museum

Channelle Chevelle Russell, Danielle Mckinney’s Portraits of Black Women at Rest

Rhea Nayyar, Child Punctures Magritte Painting With Pinecone at Israel Museum

Isa Farfan, SAIC Puts Professor on Leave After Palestine Reference

The New York Times

Clay Risen, Julio Le Parc, Op Art Master Whose Sculptures Moved, Dies at 97

Observer

Elisa Carollo, London Art Dealers Take the City’s Temperature

EDITOR’S PICK - Daniel Grant, How the World’s Great Artist Foundations Stay Solvent: Behind the philanthropy, the grants and the named galleries lies a surprisingly rigorous set of revenue streams.

Elisa Carollo, Ahead of Basel, London Gallery Weekend Put a Defiant, Energized City Scene on Display

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Supreme Court declines Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ restitution case

Adam Schrader, Sharon Percy Rockefeller mysteriously listed again as MoMA trustee

Adam Schrader, Alma Allen says galleries withdrew Venice Biennale support after publicist’s advice

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Constanza Ontiveros Valdes, Mexico City museum with world’s richest collection of Kahlo and Rivera works reopens after years of controversy

Douglas Markowitz, Artists create Fifa World Cup posters denouncing presence of US immigration agents

A. Cerisse Cohen, New photography museum in Cincinnati foregrounds the medium’s democratic power

Annabel Keenan, Legacy dealer Marianne Rosenberg unearths family archive for New York show

Gabriella Angeleti, MoMA exhibition will examine Mondrian’s time in New York and love of boogie woogie music

From the Editors, Jarvis Cocker’s ‘hodge podge’: Pulp frontman to curate art exhibition

Joe Ware, Stoke-on-Trent—the UK’s home of ceramics—seeks emergency funds for crumbling heritage

Artforum

Jordan Cronk, A Europudding-flavored Competition: Cannes 2026 Reviewed

Matthew Linde, Crimes of Fashion: Sofia Coppola’s “Pseudy Portrait” of Marc Jacobs

From the Editors, Private Jackson Pollock Auction Falls Apart at Sotheby’s: Report

From the Editors, Da Vinci’s ‘Codex Atlanticus’ is Brought Back Together With New Online Archive

From the Editors, Tone Hansen Appointed Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm

From the Editors, Julio Le Parc, Father of Interactive Art, Dies at 97

Artnet

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Kim Gordon Nixes Noise Show, Lucien Smith and Jens Hoffmann Mount Comebacks, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

Margaret Carrigan, India Surges Ahead as Asia’s Art Market Splinters

Katya Kazakina, Templon Gallery Shutters New York Branch

EDITOR’S PICK - Margaret Carrigan, Nearly Half of Mid-Career Women Are Thinking of Leaving the Art World: Report: New Artnet and AWITA research exposes the structural barriers driving a talent crisis, and what the industry must do to reverse it.

Vittoria Benzine, Dutch Court Sentences Thieves in Explosive Museum Heist

ARTnews

Karen Chernick, What Is The Game of Exquisite Corpse, and Why Do Artists Still Play It?

Thomas Rom, Thomas Rom, Art Adviser and Performance Space Chair, On His Top Exhibitions in Venice This Year

Brian Boucher, Crystal Bridges Museum Tacks on a Big Expansion, Just 15 Years After Opening, and Packs it With American Art

Daniel Cassady, Alma Allen Doubles Down on Accusations Against Publicist David Resnicow of Working Against His Venice Biennale Pavilion

Daniel Cassady, Twice a Week, David Haskell Leaves New York Magazine To Throw Clay

Anne Doran, Russian and Kyrgyz Scientists Explore Medieval City That Drowned in a 15th Century Earthquake

Leigh Anne Miller, Elfie Semotan, Austrian Fashion Photographer, Dies at 84

Oren Peleg, Anti-Trump Street Art Collective VJayBombs Goes Viral as LA Becomes a Canvas of Protest

Tori Latham, Price for Billionaire Bill Koch’s Aspen Home Cut from $125 M. to $99 M., Put Up For Auction

Brian Boucher, French Supreme Court Tears Up Lawsuit Aiming to Halt Bayeux Tapestry Loan to the British Museum

Devorah Lauter, Chairman of US Commission of Fine Arts Attends ‘Russian Davos,’ Joins Roundtable With Russian Envoy Responsible for Venice Biennale Participation

Andy Battaglia, Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Talks About Making Music for Art Projects and Robot Life as Performance

ArtReview

Sonja Teszler, Racheal Crowther: Smells Like Military-Industrial Complex

The Brooklyn Rail

Anisa Jackson, Beverly Price & Gordon Parks: A Language We Share

Matthew Biro, Shu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE

Allison Carey, Cecilia Vicuña: Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey

Ben La Rocco, Harlem Sculpture Gardens

Patricia L Lewy, Jasper Johns: Flags

Financial Times

Jaxoba Urist, Max Beckmann’s granddaughter on living with his paintings — and the artist’s love of cartwheels

Frieze

From the Editors, Under Deconstruction: Yagwang Wins the Frieze Seoul Artist Award 2026

Summer Guthery, Marianne Vitale Sculpts the Wreckage of American Industry

The Guardian

Eddy Frankel, Georg Baselitz review – a final, furious, chaotic reckoning with death

Veronica Esposito, ‘Central to human identity’: exhibition at the Met connects bodies with musical instruments

Dalya Alberge, Cello belonging to artist John Constable to be played for first time in 100 years

John Semley, Artists are making ‘anti-slop’ to rebel against AI: ‘It’s been rammed down our throats’

Hyperallergic

Jen Torwudzo-Stroh, A First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center

Isa Farfan, Winning Penn Station Redesign Features Trump’s Name

Rhea Nayyar, Italian Arts Workers Announce Nationwide Strike

Alexis Clements, The World That Held Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

John Yau, Sanford Wurmfeld’s Unstable Geometry

The New York Times

Victoria Burnett, Bounty of Frida Kahlo Art Emerges in Mexico’s Restored Museum

Observer

Jordan Riefe, Sprüth Magers Celebrates a Decade in Los Angeles With the Artists Who Helped Define a City

Chenoa Baker, In Philadelphia, a New Art Fair Removes Scale From the Equation

Elisa Carollo, Christie’s Rachel Koffsky On How the Handbag Became the Art Market’s Most Elegant Entry Point

Elisa Carollo, In the Korean Pavilion, Nation-Building Is an Open and Ongoing Process

Stephen Garrett, Director Cristian Mungiu Says ‘Fjord’ Is About the Limits of Freedom, Not Clashing Cultures

Leigh Scheps, Inside the Hottest Tony Award Afterparties of 2026

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, DoorDash driver accused of stealing artworks from Memphis condo building

Adam Schrader, People keep stealing a MILF magnet from the Vagina Museum

Adam Schrader, IDF alerts Lebanese residents to evacuate near Tyre; ICOMOS pens urgent warning

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Art in America

Emily Watlington, Through Sculpture, Kiah Celeste Finds Elegance in the Everyday

Greg Allen, As the Country Turns 250, Why Won’t Its Museums Meet the Moment?

The Art Newspaper

Joe Ware, Stoke-on-Trent—the UK’s home of ceramics—seeks emergency funds for crumbling heritage

Joe Ware, AI cultural companion Artlas expands pilots as founder argues institutions need trusted AI tools

Gareth Harris, New digital archive reconstructs Leonardo da Vinci manuscripts for the first time in four centuries

Artforum

Caroline Elbaor, Caput Mundi: Rome’s art scene grapples with the weight of its history

From the Editors, Mysterious Stonehenge Altar Could Have Traveled Via Glacier, New Study Finds

From the Editors, Crystal Bridges To Open 100,000 Square Foot Expansion

From the Editors, New York’s New School Slashes Staff, Tenured Faculty

Artnet

EDITOR’S PICK - Naomi Rea, The Art World’s Quiet Embrace of A.I. Is Not Gender Neutral: A.I. reflects the art world’s gender inequities. Whether it reshapes them depends on choices being made right now.

Vittoria Benzine, Leonardo’s ‘Codex Atlanticus’ Is Complete for the First Time in 400 Years

Margaret Carrigan, What Makes a Gallery Weekend Good?

Vittoria Benzine, Undersung Surrealist Maria Martins’s Market Is Finally Catching Up

Min Chen, How Nicolas Winding Refn and Hideo Kojima Turned Friendship Into an Art Installation

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Rediscovered Constable Goes on View for First Time in Decades

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Arne Glimcher’s $50M Pollock Falls Flat in Sotheby’s Private Auction—and More Art Industry News

Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, Is the Mega-Gallery Model Collapsing?

ARTnews

Daniel Cassady, Sotheby’s Quietly Tried to Sell Arne Glimcher’s Pollock for $50 M.—It Didn’t Go as Planned

Anne Doran, Mexico Demands a Halt to an Auction of Mexican Artifacts in Colorado

Harrison Jacobs, National Park Service Orders Removal of Quotes at Bunker Hill After Visitor Complains of ‘Woke’ Ideology

Tessa Solomon, Following Federal Order, Kennedy Center Begins Removing References to Donald Trump

Daniel Cassady, Police Investigate Suspected Arson at Boston Museum of African American History

Brian Boucher, Heir of Margarethe Lieser Sues for Restitution of Gustav Klimt Portrait That Fetched $37.5 M. at Auction in Austria Before the Sale Fell Through

ArtReview

Jenny Wu, What Drives the Enduring Popularity of Nancy Holt?

The Brooklyn Rail

Molly Warnock, Eric N. Mack with Molly Warnock

Stephen Melville, Readings

Molly Warnock, Pieter Schoolwerth with Molly Warnock

Jillian Russo, Greater New York 2026

Mark Bloch, Marcel Duchamp

Financial Times

Melanie Gerlis, At this year’s Art Basel, only the spectacular will do

Jackie Wullschläger, How Helen Frankenthaler became America’s grande dame of abstraction

The Guardian

John Semley, Artists are making ‘anti-slop’ to rebel against AI: ‘It’s been rammed down our throats’

Jonathan Jones, Julio Le Parc review – as if Bridget Riley had opened a riotous funfair

Erin Feher, Mildred Howard on her first retrospective in a major museum: ‘My art is part of who I am as a person’

Hyperallergic

Valentina Di Liscia, Jamie Nares’s Enduring Romance With the Brushstroke

Isa Farfan, New School Lays Off Nearly 90 People, Dealing Blow to Humanities

Leonardo Páez Rodríguez, We Must Protect South American Rock Art

Matt Stromberg, Is Betting on the Art Market a Terrible Idea?

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel

Anthony Majanlahti, Portrait of a Papal Artist

The New Yorker

Zachary Fine, Edmonia Lewis, the Misunderstood Sculptor Who Brought Stone to Life

Observer

Dian Parker, Joan Miró’s Joy Is as Infectious as Ever

Christa Terry, A $3 Million Night at the Geffen: MOCA’s Celebrated Gala Returns in Full Force

Elisa Carollo, At Giovanna Caruso Fendi’s FOROF, Rome’s Past Finds New Context in the Contemporary

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Tracey Emin, A Second Life” at Tate Modern in London

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, What We Skipped: Heritage fights, museum warnings and auction bets

Adam Schrader, Ilse Bing exhibition at Chrysler Museum traces an artist remade by exile

Adam Schrader, Frantz Zéphirin’s first U.S. survey explores Haitian politics, Vodou spirits and visions

Adam Schrader, Boston police seek suspect after Juneteenth items burned outside African Meeting House

Adam Schrader, Newark Museum of Art worker alleges he was fired after HR complaints

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Jones v. Newark Museum of Art retaliation lawsuit

Adam Schrader, N.J. art middleman arrested in $190K deal had federal judgment

Adam Schrader, ‘No match for so much violence’: Three men sentenced for Drents Museum heist

Adam Schrader, Hunter Biden gets the Beeple treatment after certifying art on blockchain

The Wall Street Journal

From the Editors, Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of June 7

Michael J. Hatch, ‘Korean National Treasures: 2,000 Years of Art’ Review: A Culture’s High Points

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Art in America

Ara H. Merjian, A MoMA Retrospective Proves Duchamp Was More Sincere Than He Seems

The Art Newspaper

Melanie Gerlis, Comment | As Pace slashes business, could shrinking be the next growth model?

Gareth Harris, Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian graphic novelist, dies at 56

James Imam, More than 100 artists threaten legal action against Venice Biennale

Osman Can Yerebakan, Miami Beach’s Bass Museum of Art hires Philippe Vergne as artistic director and chief curator

Tim Schneider, Comment | Farewell, Los Angeles’s ‘punk’ Box gallery

Martin Bailey, Philadelphia opens its Van Gogh Sunflowers display with a very rare loan from London’s National Gallery

Artforum

Ela Bittencourt, “A City Tattooed with Neons”: In São Paulo, Lygia Pape Meets Queer Confessions

Bryan Barcena, Art, Land, Money, Data: Ecology Alarms Go Off in Reno

From the Editors, Miami’s Bass Museum Appoints Philippe Vergne as Artistic Director and Chief Curator

From the Editors, Marjane Satrapi, Author of “Persepolis,” Dies at 56

From the Editors, Artists & Mothers Organization Announces 2026 Childcare Grant Recipients

From the Editors, Kulapat Yantrasast Named Artistic Director of 2027 Bukhara Biennial

Artnet

Vittoria Benzine, ‘Scandalous’ $60 Million Modigliani Nude Headlines Sotheby’s Lewis Collection Sale

Vittoria Benzine, Serial Museum Leader Philippe Vergne Named Artistic Director of the Bass in Miami Beach

EDITOR’S PICK - Jo Lawson-Tancred, Artists Threaten Lawsuit as Venice Biennale Award Crisis Deepens: Artists accuse La Biennale of ignoring their withdrawal requests, escalating an awards controversy that has shadowed this year’s exhibition.

Vittoria Benzine, Newly Confirmed Lucian Freud Debuts in London

Sonia Manalili and Kate Brown, Re-Air: How Raphael Made—and Unmade—the Renaissance

ARTnews

Anne Doran, Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Was Hauled 430 Miles From Northeast Scotland, New Study Argues

Brian Boucher, High-End Art Market Not Exclusive Enough For You? Now There’s an Art Show Aboard a 236-Foot Yacht Featuring Marina Abramović and Shirin Neshat

Tessa Solomon, Trump To Divert $90 M. in National Park Revenue to D.C. Construction Projects

Harrison Jacobs, New School Lays Off 87 Staff and Faculty As It Attemps to Plug $48 M. Deficit

Brian Boucher, A New French Study Says It Is Safe to Ship the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum

Harrison Jacobs, The Pope Will Inaugurate Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família After 144 Years of Construction

Scott Roxborough, Marjane Satrapi, ‘Persepolis’ Director, Dies at 56

Brian Boucher, Museum Veteran Philippe Vergne Joins Miami’s Bass Museum as Artistic Director and Chief Curator

ArtReview

Martin Herbert, Francis Picabia: Against Bad Breath and Cathedrals of Shit

The Brooklyn Rail

Maria Stavrinaki, Ad Reinhardt’s Posthistory

Julian Nykolak, To What End Painting?

Dieter Schwarz, One Day After Another

Alistair Rider, Songs of the Ongoing

From the Editors, Jane Swavely with Molly Warnock

Frieze

From the Editors, 6 Shows to See Across Europe This June

Frida Sandström, Olof Marsja Surveys the Aftermath of Commodity Culture

The Guardian

Eddy Frankel, Simeon Barclay review – shut out by the gates of a drab modern Britain

Jonathan Jones, Mind-melting MC Escher, mesmerising Marilyn and the greatness of Glasgow – the week in art

Hanno Hauenstein, ‘They are disturbing the dead’: reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century

Sarah Aitken, I just inhaled 2.4bn year old oxygen in Tasmania. Now I’m part of an exhibition until I die

Jonathan Jones, MC Escher review – hallucinatory insights from the master of the mind-bending staircase

Hyperallergic

Valentina Di Liscia, Art Movements: Meet MoMA’s New Photo Chief

Anna Lee, Marjane Satrapi, “Persepolis” Author and Human Rights Fighter, Dies at 56

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Required Reading

Nereya Otieno, The Black Photographers Who Exposed My Own Brainwashing

Valentina Di Liscia and Rhea Nayyar, Pace Cuts 50 Workers and 50 Artists, Citing a “Broken” Gallery Model

Eileen G’Sell, The Best Part of “Moss & Freud” Is When It’s Over

The Los Angeles Times

Shana Nys Dambrot, Dataland defies expectations. But will L.A. embrace the world’s first AI arts museum?

The New York Times

Frank Rose, At the Ambitious New A.I Museum, You Feel the Art, and It Feels You Right Back

Jason Bailey, Why Westerns Still Matter

The New Yorker

From the Editors, Cowboy Heaven, in MOMA’s Westerns Series

Observer

Michaela Zee, Tinashe and Rebecca Black Electrified MoMA’s 2026 Party in the Garden

Dan Duray, The Aldrich’s First Decennial Takes Stock of Contemporary Art in Connecticut

Elisa Carollo, When Great Collections Come to Market, Dane Jensen Makes Sure Nothing Is Left on the Table

Elisa Carollo, Su Xiaobai’s Meditative Material Practice Is the Focus of One of the Biennale’s Most Commanding Shows

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Pace roster cuts hit living artists, photography hardest

Adam Schrader, Balloon Museum announces details for inaugural exhibit at new New York headquarters

Adam Schrader, Och and Rockefeller vanish from MoMA trustee page; Leon Black does not

Adam Schrader, Records show UT Austin leaders concerned about ‘activities’ around anti-fascist art show

Adam Schrader, Public Records: UT Austin follow-up emails on anti-fascist student art show

Vanity Fair

Nate Freeman, The Richest Woman in the World Has Done It Again With Her Art Museum—in the Middle of Arkansas

Wallpaper

Jamilah Rose-Roberts, Inside Yinka Ilori’s ‘Joy Through Resistance’, a powerful meditation on faith, family and diasporic resilience

Hannah Silver, As War Horse returns to the National Theatre, we go behind the design

Hannah Silver, Anne Imhof’s performances can be raw, haunting, vulnerable: see her London show

From the Editors, Out of office: What the Wallpaper* editors are looking forward to in June

Emi Eleode, London is open for art lovers! Ten shows to see at Gallery Weekend 2026

Whitehot

Ayse Sarioglu, Foreign Tongues: Nathaniel Mary Quinn on The Rolling Stones

Gary Brewer, Rémy Hysbergue Catching Sight of the First Cherry Trees Galerie Richard, Paris 74 rue de Turenne 3 Impasse Saint-Claude

Margaret Rand, Haroun Hayward and the Return to Landscape Painting

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Art in America

Steffani Jemison, 5 Books on Steffani Jemison’s Shelf

The Art Newspaper

Alexandra F. Coego, Gaudí’s Sagrada Família finally shakes off its ‘incompletable’ tag, as Pope prepares to inaugurate its tallest and final tower

Gareth Harris, Quentin Blake’s sprawling Centre for Illustration to launch in London

Ben Luke and Louisa Buck, London Gallery Weekend 2026: our critics pick their top shows

Anny Shaw, Call my agent: why artist management companies are making a comeback

Artforum

Nicole L’Huillier, Nicole L’Huillier on Daniela Catrileo, Patricio Guzmán, and collective songwriting

From the Editors, Alan Saret, Author of Transcendent Wire Sculptures, Dead at 81

From the Editors, French Street Artist JR’s Paris Installation Postponed Due to Wind Damage

From the Editors, Makeda Best to Lead MoMA’s Photography Department

From the Editors, Venice Biennale Faces Legal Action After Including 100+ Artists in Prize Competition Against Their Wishes

Artnet

From the Editors, Pace Gallery Downsizes, Cutting Artists and Staff

Annikka Olsen, Crystal Bridges’s New Expansion Makes Room for More of Its Story

Richard Whiddington, MoMA Names Makeda Best as Photography Curator

Vittoria Benzine, Marisa Merz at 100: Major Retrospective to Span Three Italian Museums

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Newly Unearthed John Lennon Drawings Make Their Public Debut

Vittoria Benzine, Louvre Heist Investigation Reaches Belgium

Richard Whiddington, Oscar Tuazon Resurrects a Lost Scott Burton Work for New York’s AIDS Memorial

Jo Lawson-Tancred, This Masterwork by Irish Painter Gerard Dillon Just Crushed Its Auction Estimate by 450 Percent

Richard Whiddington, Emily Sargent’s Watercolors Arrive at Auction After Decades Hidden in a Trunk

Sonia Manalili and Ben Davis, Arthur Jafa’s Radical Theory of Readymade Art

ARTnews

Tessa Solomon, Artists & Mothers Announces 2026 Recipients of Childcare Grants

Devorah Lauter and Daniel Cassady, Mega Gallery Pace is Dropping Some 50 Artists, 50 Staff in ‘Model Correction’

Daniel Cassady and Alex Greenberger, Kulapat Yantrasast Named Artistic Director of Next Bukhara Biennial

Harrison Jacobs, New Freeman’s CEO, Rana Begum Joins Lehmann Maupin, and More: Industry Moves for June 3, 2026

Daniel Cassady, We Asked Artists, Dealers, Lawyers, and Advisers What Gallery Representation Means Today—And It’s Surprisingly Complicated

Anne Doran, Colorado Governor Signs Artist Corporation Bill into State Law

Daniel Cassady, Follower of Hieronymus Bosch Painting Sells for Over 10 Times High Estimate in Strong Week for Old Masters in New York

Brian Boucher, How Gedi Sibony Makes a Show, By Transforming Street Finds Into Magical ‘Frozen Moments’

Brian Boucher, Venice Biennale Artists Threaten Legal Action Against Organizers For Disregarding Requests to Be Withdrawn from ‘Visitors’ Lions’ Awards

ArtReview

From the Editors, The 14 Exhibitions to See in June 2026

From the Editors, Kulapat Yantrasast appointed artistic director of 2027 Bukhara Biennial

From the Editors, Marjane Satrapi, graphic novelist, film director, activist, 1969–2026

From the Editors, Cecilia Alemani to curate 2027 Taipei Biennial

From the Editors, Venice Biennale artists to pursue legal actions over their inclusion in the Lions competitions against their wishes

The Brooklyn Rail

Molly Warnock, Going On

Ralph Ubl, Romantic Futures After the End of Art

Joseph Henry, The Expressionist, As Practiced

Rachel Cohen, Handoff

Molly Warnock, David Reed & Amy Sillman with Molly Warnock

Frieze

Franz Thalmair, The Fabric of Industry: Mining Meets Textiles in Taiwan

The Guardian

Skye Sherwin, ‘We have a shared sky and stars’: the Indigenous American artists challenging our relationship to the natural world

Catherine Slessor, Bricking it! How a ‘crinkle crankle’ wall reinvented the Serpentine pavilion

Andrew Pulver, Martin Scorsese accused of ‘throwing artists under bus’ with AI storyboards

Hyperallergic

Isa Farfan, New Trump Rule Could Cut Enrollment at Nearly Half of Arts MA Programs

Greta Rainbow, Radical Reclamation at the First-Ever ArtPhilly Festival

Max Blue, The Sun Is Shining on Saif Azzuz

Rhea Nayyar, 100+ Artists Threaten Legal Action Over Inclusion in Biennale Awards

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Alan Saret, Julio Le Parc, and Hilde Lynn Helphenstein

Ed Simon, Edward Hopper’s Distinctly American Solitude

The New York Times

EDITOR’S PICK - Robin Pogrebin, A Mega Gallery Shrinks: Pace Cuts 50 Artists, 50 Staff: A challenging art market is forcing even an established player to contract.

Hilarie M. Sheets, Saving Alice’s Adventures in New York. Her Mural Traveled a Rabbit Hole Too.

Celia McGee, Where Sky Meets Water, Sanford Biggers Sees Life’s ‘Drift’

The New Yorker

Dana Goodyear, A Stunning New LACMA Descends Upon a City in Crisis

Observer

Elisa Carollo, The Temporal and Geographical Ambiguity of Mark Manders

Simon Coates, Can Rock Royalty Really Make Art Worth Owning?

Elisa Carollo, At Marianne Boesky, Sanford Biggers Rewrites the Rules of Material Storytelling

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Whitney Museum reports more than $1B in net assets after investment gains

Adam Schrader, McCormick denies copying tiny-figures food photos in Big Appetites copyright case

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Boffoli copyright infringement cases over Big Appetites

Adam Schrader, Forensic Archive of Iran seeks Rasht Grand Bazaar testimony

The Wall Street Journal

Kelly Crow, Texas and the Smithsonian Are Locked in a Custody Battle Over a Space Shuttle

Michael J. Hatch, ‘Painters, Ports and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850’ Review: Taste Goes Global

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Art in America

Andy Battaglia, Koyoltzintli’s Clay Instruments Channel Sounds from Distant Pasts

Eliza Goodpasture, How Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn—a Painter, Collector, and Collaborator of Carl Jung—Mined the Archive and Her Subconscious

The Art Newspaper

Louisa Buck, Venice verdicts: art world figures give their thoughts on the 2026 Biennale

Gareth Harris, JR’s wrapped Pont Neuf installation in Paris damaged in storm

Kealey Boyd, Colorado passes law giving artists new legal and fiscal tools

Sarp Kerem Yavuz, Comment | Furor over ‘colourised’ Ansel Adams photo reflects problems with the art market, not AI

Petala Ironcloud, Phoenix Art Museum gifted 185 works of Native American art

Artforum

From the Editors, French Artists Denounce Centre Pompidou and Hanwha Partnership in Open Letter

From the Editors, Graduate Arts Programs Could Lose Loan Access Under New Federal Guidelines

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, This Masterwork by Irish Painter Gerard Dillon Just Crushed Its Auction Estimate by 450 Percent

Richard Whiddington, Oscar Tuazon Resurrects a Lost Scott Burton Work for New York’s AIDS Memorial

Vittoria Benzine, Pussy Riot Turns Its Venice Biennale Protest Into a Music Video

ARTnews

Tessa Solomon, Higher-Ed Groups Decry Proposed Federal ‘Earnings Test’ That Could Decimate Arts Education

Brian Boucher, Art Basel Reveals More Participating Galleries and the Artists Selected for its ‘Exclusive’ Initiative, Which Withholds Artworks from Email Previews

Harrison Jacobs, Kara Walker Fronts Loewe’s 180th Anniversary Campaign Nodding to Its Art-Filled Past

Andy Battaglia, Raymonde Arcier, Feminist Artist Who Worked With Fabric in France, Dies at 86

Tessa Solomon, Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Hit 900-Year-Old Crusader Castle in Lebanon

Devorah Lauter, French Court Rules That Lawsuit Between Monet Heirs and Wildenstein & Co. Gallery Can Proceed

Brian Boucher, Muralist Robert Wyland Files $25 M. Lawsuit Over Dallas Whale Mural Destroyed For World Cup

Daniel Cassady, Lucian Freud Painting He Spent Decades Denying Will Go on Public View for the First Time

ArtReview

Lewis Gordon, The Life and Death of the ‘Liminal Space’

From the Editors, Open letter denounces Centre Pompidou and Hanwha group partnership

The Brooklyn Rail

Dian Parker, CELIA PAUL with Dian Parker

Jurriaan Benschop, THOMAS DEMAND with Jurriaan Benschop

Amanda Gluibizzi, ALLISON KATZ with Amanda Gluibizzi

Andrew Paul Woolbright, MARKUS LÜPERTZ with Andrew Paul Woolbright

Joachim Pissarro and Jennifer Stockman, ROD BIGELOW with Joachim Pissarro & Jennifer Stockman

Frieze

Chloe Aridjis, Donna Huddleston and the Luminous Language of Drawing

Liliana Porter, Liliana Porter: The Ana Mendieta I Knew

James Hoff, Jordan Nassar, Rachel Valinsky and Travis Diehl, Printed Matter: The Bookshop that Changed Artist Publishing

Cici Peng, The Many Lives of Marianne Faithfull

Lisette May Monroe, Chantal Joffe’s Awkward and Intimate Portraits

Zoë Hopkins, Leilah Babirye’s Masks Begin in the Scrapyard

Ramona Heinlein, Liesl Raff Investigates the Material Life of Latex

The Guardian

Eddy Frankel, Cave paintings, a galleon and a wild Frenchman: London Gallery Weekend’s 10 must-see shows

Veronica Esposito, ‘A kind of reconnecting with the past’: the Met celebrates the art of the portrait

Ana Elisa Sotelo, Women behind the lens: ‘Once naked, they formed a circle. The kicking and screaming occurred naturally’

Jonathan Jones, Jack White review – former White Stripe’s art is like a 12-year-old visiting Tate Modern for the first time

Hyperallergic

Matt Stromberg, 15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer

Amanda Manitach, Seattle Artists Breathe Life Into Houses Slated for Demolition

Shameekia Shantel Johnson, Lucian Freud’s Dozing Nude Could Fetch $47M at Auction

Silvia Benedetti, Artist Julio Le Parc, Maestro of Light, Movement, and Defiance, Dies at 97

Rhea Nayyar, Met Museum Announces Free Memberships for NY SNAP Recipients

Aaron Short, The Small Miracle of Greenpoint Open Studios

Isa Farfan, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein of “Jerry Gogosian” Found Dead in Brazil

Rhea Nayyar, Kingston Locals Can’t Stand City’s “Soulless” New Signage

John Yau, Celia Paul Transcends Her Own Mythology

Matt Stromberg, Unofficial Iraqi Pavilion Pops Up in Venice, but Not That One

EDITOR’S PICK - Laura Raicovich, Society’s Repair Begins With Art: We must cultivate spaces with the capacity to hold another kind of cultural experience that forges a reintegration of art and life.

From the Editors, Opportunities in June 2026

The New York Times

Jason Farago, MoMA Turns to the Bay Area for Its New Photography Chief

Zachary Small, New Federal Guidelines Threaten Almost Half of Graduate Arts Programs

Alex Marshall, Over 100 Artists Threaten to Sue Venice Biennale for Including Them in Awards

Observer

Daniel Grant, How Outposts Turned the World’s Greatest Museums into Instruments of Soft Power

Courtney Maum, The Books That Taught Author Courtney Maum How to Be Funny Without Being Cruel

Elisa Carollo, Edmondo and Michele di Robilant Chart a Course for Robilant with Old Masters and New Names

Siddhant Adlaka, Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’ Renders Queer Desire Against the Machinery of War

Elisa Carollo, London Gallery Weekend Charts the Evolving Coordinates of the British Art Scene

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Wyland sues FIFA, property owners over Dallas whale mural destruction

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Wyland v. FIFA et al.

Adam Schrader, How to buy beautiful things from all over the world

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Apollo Magazine

Lauren Kane, Frederic Church’s miracle home on the Hudson

Irina Dumitrescu, The furious creativity of Matisse’s final years

Edward Behrens, The quiet radicals of the Singapore art scene

Michael Delgado, Summer is here and so is Treasure House

Hettie Judah, The Venice Biennale’s excess baggage problem

Michael Delgado, Howzat! The fine art of cricket at Lord’s

EDITOR’S PICK - Jane Morris, Is the art market ruining art?: The death of Koyo Kouoh, the artistic director of the Venice Biennale, in May 2025 – a year before the exhibition’s opening last month – raised many questions about how the show, ‘In Minor Keys’, would be realised. But one thing was certain: it was not going be a survey of the titans or fast-rising stars who power the contemporary art market.

Peter Parker, Art and the invention of the homosexual

Emma Crichton-Miller, What makes early English embroidery so valuable?

Noah Margulis, Can the Dutch masters help us imagine New Amsterdam?

Christopher Turner, A forgotten modernist masterpiece in Vienna reopens

Conrad Landin, Connoisseurs: the experts who shaped our taste in art

Damion Searls, El Anatsui’s haunting driftwood sculptures

Lloyd De Beer, The forgotten collectors of Britain’s Gilded Age

Art Asia Pacific

Annette Meier, Khaled Sabsabi: Splintered Worlds

Reiko Tomii, Arakawa Visits Arakawa [sic and sic]

Yuqian Fan, French Artists Call for Boycott of Centre Pompidou Hanwha

Kalani Ko, Kazakhstani Art Community Demands Reinstatement of Censored Venice Work

Art in America

Emily Watlington, 5 New Books to Transport You Elsewhere This June

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, American artist and satirist, has died at age 40 in São Paulo, local media reports

Gareth Harris, Dawn Airey announced as new chair of Arts Council England

Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, Chichén Itzá reopens after dispute with vendors that led to 13-day closure

Scarlet Cheng, Inside the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s major expansion

Anni Irish, New art fair focused on community and accessibility launching in Philadelphia

Philippa Pham Hughes, Comment | Opportunists are to blame for the Kennedy Center’s downfall

Artforum

From the Editors, “Jerry Gogosian” creator Hilde Lynn Helphenstein Found Dead in Brazil

From the Editors, British Museum Draws Criticism for Postponing Lecture on “Ancient History of Israel and Judah”

From the Editors, Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana Stolen from Centre Pompidou-Metz

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, What Will Art Basel’s No-Preview-Allowed ‘Basel Exclusive’ Initiative Offer?

Richard Whiddington, A Dystopian ‘Black Mirror’ Experience Lands at the Shed

Richard Whiddington, Milan’s Beloved Bull Mosaic Gets Restored—and Locals Have Thoughts

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Pioneering Kinetic Artist Julio Le Parc Dies at 97—and More Art Industry News

Vittoria Benzine, Maurizio Cattelan’s Infamous Banana Vanishes. Again

Richard Whiddington, Mondrian Estate Teams With One-Time NFT Sensation Doodles

ARTnews

Brian Boucher, Sotheby’s Offers Art and Design From Estate of Revered Dealer Barbara Gladstone, Led by Richard Prince and a Jean Prouvé Sideboard

Brian Boucher, Chinese Archaeologist Liu Bin, Known for Work at Liangzhu Site, Pleads Guilty to Corruption and Misappropriation Charges

Tessa Solomon, DuSable Museum President Responds to Whistleblower Lawsuit in New Filing

Brian Boucher, Art World Commentator Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, Better Known as Jerry Gogosian, Found Dead in São Paulo

Andy Battaglia, Richard Neutra House in LA With Creek Beneath It Hits Market for $6 M.

Daniel Cassady, Burial Cache Found at Ancient Cemetery in Egypt Offers Clues to Funeral Customs

Daniel Cassady, Brazilian Police Believe They Have Identified Architect of Matisse Theft at Biblioteca Mário de Andrade

Devorah Lauter, Someone Stole Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana, and the Centre Pompidou-Metz Is Pressing Charges

ArtReview

From the Editors, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, artworld satirist behind Jerry Gogosian persona, 1985–2026

BOMB

Robert Longo, Clifford Ross by Robert Longo

Cultured

Sarah Cascone, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, Who Memed the Art World as Jerry Gogosian, Is Dead

Frieze

Sam Moore, Lewis Hammond’s Figures Linger at the Threshold

Galerie

Lane Nieset, Tadashi Kawamata Transforms Ruinart’s Storied Estate with Nature-Inspired Installations

Paul Lester, 8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in June

The Guardian

Kevin Rawlinson, Media veteran Dawn Airey to take over as chair of Arts Council England

From the Editors, ‘An endless silent scream feeling’: artist Roni Horn on horror, hope and landing in a lake in Iceland

Lanre Bakare, Early portrait denied by Lucian Freud shown for first time after authentication

The New York Times

Leo Sands, Was Churchill a Serious Artist? This Exhibition Says, ‘Yes.’

Michael Kimmelman, Obama Center’s Two Sides: A Lovely Park and a Forbidding Tower

Observer

Christa Terry, Inside El Museo del Barrio’s 2026 Gala: J Balvin, $1 Million and a Packed House

Elisa Carollo, The Frick Collection’s Louis Vuitton Partnership Is Luxury’s Latest Cultural Power Move

Elise Morton, Manuel Mathieu’s Venice Biennale Debut Asks How We Carry the Past

Elisa Carollo, Annie Taylor On Collecting as Cultural Stewardship

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Art-world satirist Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, known as Jerry Gogosian, found dead in Brazil

The Washington Post

Philip Kennicott, The Obama Center opens as a time warp to an old political order

Art Spell is a subscription-based daily roundup of art news and reviews to help you stay current with what’s being reported on in the visual arts community. The profits from Art Spell are donated to organizations supporting art journalists and writers. 

Airmail

Jeanne Malle, Michele di Robilant

James Wolcott, The Unstoppable Jasper Johns

Art in America

Jackson Arn, Phoenix Probably Shouldn’t Exist. But Eric Fischl and Frank Lloyd Wright Make It Feel Like the Future

EDITOR’S PICK - Catherine G. Wagley, As Full-Time Art Critics All But Disappear, What Can We Learn From the Retiring Generation?: This was the steepest downside of the 20th-century newspaper critic: While the writer’s career received the kind of support that enabled a real relationship with an artistic community, that community was limited to one perspective.

The Art Newspaper

Melissa Gronlund, Yemen deals with cultural heritage challenges after years of civil war

Gareth Harris, British Museum director responds to pushback after Jewish Culture Month event postponed

Gareth Harris, Gone bananas: Cattelan’s Comedian stolen from Centre Pompidou-Metz exhibition

Karen Chernick, Show celebrates legacy of the art school in Benton End—which counted Lucian Freud among its students

Anna Brady, Museum acquisitions round-up: a double-sided print by Kirchner and one of the most depicted Black models in pre-20th century art

Scott Reyburn, Blue-chip gets a boost, but edgier art remains in the doldrums

Elena Goukassian and Benjamin Sutton, The 2026 Whitney Biennial in five key themes

Artforum

Theo Belci, The Last Kids of TV: Marc Kokopeli’s Art of Doomed Nostalgia

Katy Siegel, The End of Neoliberal Art: Populism, Pluralism, and the Lessons of ’76

Gee Wesley, Work Ethics: Three New England Shows Look at Labor, Capital, and Incarceration

From the Editors, British Artist Iain Alexander Works With Trump on $250 Bill Design

From the Editors, Lost Leonora Carrington Work to Make Public Debut

From the Editors, Getty Center Reveals Renovation Plan: New Trams, New Entrance, New Green Spaces

From the Editors, Tess Jaray, Painter of Architectural Abstractions, Dies at 88

Artnet

Andrew Russeth, The Rulers of Venice: In Thrilling Book, Biennale Curators Tell All

Vittoria Benzine, Alan Saret, Post-Minimal Sculptor of Spiritual Forms, Dies at 81

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Newly Authenticated Whistler Portrait Sheds Light on His Formative Years

Vittoria Benzine, This Artist Just Gave a Hermès Store Window a Whimsical Makeover

Richard Whiddington, Seminal Lucian Freud Painting Comes to Auction for the First Time

ARTnews

Karen Chernick, Andy Warhol’s Tribute to Marilyn Monroe

Precious Adesina, What Was Nigeria’s Osogbo School of Art, and Why Was It So Important?

Daniel Cassady, British Museum Evacuated After Suspicious Device Found in Restroom

Daniel Cassady, Julio Le Parc, Pioneer of Kinetic Art and Venice Biennale Prize Winner, Dies at 97

Daniel Cassady, House Democrats Move to Block Trump’s Proposed Arlington ‘Triumphal Arch’

Daniel Cassady, Art Writer Anthony Haden-Guest Says Socialite and Collector Libbie Mugrabi Won’t Return His Cartoons

Harrison Jacobs, Leonora Carrington Painting Made Inside Spanish Sanatorium Resurfaces After 80 Years

Alex Greenberger, British Museum Reschedules Postponed Israel Lecture to June Following Fears of Protests

ArtReview

Declan Long, Tarek Atoui’s Living Instruments

From the Editors, Julio Le Parc, artist committed to movement and light, 1028–2026

Financial Times

Robin Lane Fox, Boston Museum of Fine Arts succeeds in reframing nature

Hannah Nepilová, Why playing the guitar is really all about sex

Jackie Wullschläger, Rothko in Florence — the Renaissance masters who unleashed America’s great abstractionist

Frieze

Chloe Stead, Misogyny Has Evolved – Artistic Responses Haven’t

Juliet Jacques, The Top Shows to See During London Gallery Weekend 2026

From the Editors, What’s on at No.9 Cork Street this June

The Guardian

Angela Giuffrida, ‘What happened to the testicles?’: mockery in Milan over bull mosaic’s restoration

Steven Morris, Elizabeth Blackadder exhibition reveals wintry Tuscan landscapes and minimalist still lifes

Chloe Mac Donnell, From bikinis to cat bowls: how museum gift stores became the place to shop

Hyperallergic

Marc J. Straus, The Art Market Post-Pollock

John Yau, Nicola Florimbi’s Paintings Are Unsettling and Necessary

Isa Farfan, Patagonia Sues Drag Queen “Pattie Gonia” for Trademark Infringement

Anna Lee, New Brooklyn Subway Mural Adds a Touch of Whimsy to Commuting

Imani Williford, Martha Cooper Captures How Urban Youth Made New York

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel

The New Yorker

Hilton Als, The Expansive Joy of Mao Ishikawa

Observer

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Louise Nevelson, Mrs. N’s Palace” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth, When Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why Photography Needs Community More Than Ever

Elisa Carollo, An Art Lover’s Guide to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (and Its Expansion)

Elisa Carollo, Galerie Gmurzynska’s Old-School Slow Art Model Is Newly Radical

Siddhant Adlakha, Screening at Cannes: Marine Atlan’s ‘La Gradiva’

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Iranian state media spotlights London biennial of contemporary Iranian art

Adam Schrader, Radiohead’s Motion Picture House brings Kid A Mnesia dread to Brooklyn Navy Yard

Wall Street Journal

Lance Esplund, ‘Marcel Duchamp’ Review: An Iconoclast’s Impact at MoMA

Brian P. Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler and Anthony Caro’s Creative Communion

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James Hannaham, David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis

Art in America

Emily Watlington, What We Miss When We Flatten Georgia O’Keeffe Into a Feminist Icon

The Art Newspaper

Elena Goukassian, Getty Center reveals details of upcoming campus renovations

Jon Sharples, Why artists’ works held in storage can be seized when a gallery goes bust

Ben Luke, Smithsonian Women’s Museum chaos, Oliver Beer and Rufus Wainwright, Jasper Johns in Bilbao—podcast

Martin Bailey, A century ago, Tate borrowed five Van Goghs to inaugurate its new “modern foreign” galleries

Artforum

From the Editors, Tiwani Contemporary, Bastion of African Diasporic Art, Closes

From the Editors, Christie’s London Taps Kering Scion François-Henri Pinault as New Chairman

From the Editors, Art Basel Paris Names 206 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition

From the Editors, Online Betting Platform Kalshi Introduces Prediction Markets for Art Auction Results

Artnet

Katya Kazakina, What the May Auctions Revealed About Art as an Asset Class

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Inside Jack White’s Eccentric Show of ‘Hardware Store Art’

Vittoria Benzine, Pre-Raphaelite Masterpiece Expected to Rake in $1.3 Million at Auction

Sonia Manalili and Ben Davis, Arthur Jafa’s Radical Theory of Readymade Art

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Art Basel Paris Releases 2026 Exhibitor List: Who’s In? Who’s Out?

Richard Whiddington, Ken Griffin’s Other Copy of the U.S. Constitution Makes Its Museum Debut

Vittoria Benzine, Lavish Gold Hoard Unearthed in Saudi Arabia’s Historic Desert City

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Tiwani Contemporary, Major African Art Gallery, Is Closing Its Doors

Richard Whiddington, The Vaults Under the Lincoln Memorial Are Finally Opening to the Public

ARTnews

Tara Anne Dalbow, Time and Material Feel Alive in the Hammer’s “Several Eternities in a Day” Exhibition

Gameli Hamelo, Zohra Opoku, a ‘Woven Storyteller,’ Is Shapeshifting Her Way into Africa’s Biggest Museums

Lilyanna D’Amato, After Viral Venice Pavilion, Florentina Holzinger Brings a 9-Hour Body-Art Spectacle to Vienna

Alex Greenberger, Alan Saret, ‘Anti-Form’ Artist Known for His Wire Sculptures, Dies at 81

Daniel Cassady, Sotheby’s $30 M. T. rex Is Further Evidence That Dinosaurs Are Becoming the Ultimate Trophy Object for the Ultra-Wealthy

Harrison Jacobs, British Painter Behind Proposed $250 Bill Says He Discussed Design With Trump

George Nelson, SXSW London’s Art Program Spotlights Spain’s ‘Underrated’ Contemporary Art Scene

Daniel Cassady, No-Bid Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Contract Swelled to $13.1 M. With “Inflated” Profit Margin, as Leak Problems Persist

Alex Greenberger, Tiwani Contemporary, Beloved Gallery with a Focus on Art of the African Diaspora, Closes After 15 Years

Harrison Jacobs, French Filmmaker Romain Gavras Is Turning the $102 M. Louvre Heist Into a Movie

Alex Greenberger, French Artists Call for Boycott of Pompidou’s Seoul Outpost over Partner Foundation’s Ties to Israel

ArtReview

Clive Chijioke Nwonka, What Arsenal’s League Win Tells Us About Britain – And Art

Philippa Snow, ‘Moss & Freud’: Both Complaining and Explaining

Frieze

From the Editors, Gallery Applications for Frieze Los Angeles 2027 Are Open

Marko Gluhaich, Making Connection Possible: the 59th Carnegie International

Will Ferreira Dyke, The Beautiful World of Walter Pfeiffer

From the Editors, Meet the Committee: Kibum Kim of Commonwealth and Council

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts – the week in art

Eddy Frankel, Don’t: Camille Henrot review – surreal sexual psychodrama for the digitally overwhelmed

Eddy Frankel, ‘I lived near a serial killer’: Steven Shearer on turning teen angst and death metal into high art

Hyperallergic

Emiline Smith, The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum

Valentina Di Liscia, Art Movements: Wolfgang Tillmans Wins Europe’s Richest Art Prize

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Required Reading

John Yau, David Humphrey Is Allergic to Style

Isa Farfan, Figurative Expressionist Painter Jay Milder Dies at 92

Rhea Nayyar, A Look Into Frank Stella’s Mesmerizing Collection of Diné Textiles

The New York Times

EDITOR’S PICK - Robin Pogrebin, Curating in the Cross Hairs: Is This the Smithsonian Chief’s Last Show?: Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian secretary under pressure from the White House, organized an exhibit exploring America’s founding ideals.

J Wortham, In the Art of Firelei Báez, Our Histories Are Ready for a Review

Observer

Christa Terry, Observer’s 2026 June Art Fair Calendar

Elisa Carollo, Erwin Wurm Transforms the Fortuny Museum into a Theater of the Absurd

Elisa Carollo, Wallace Chan’s Dual-Site Exhibition Bridges Not Only Geography But Also Matter, Energy, Past and Future

J. Scott Orr, Roberto Lugo On Thinking Larger Than Life in Madison Square Park

Siddhant Adlakha, Screening at Cannes: Los Javis’s ‘La Bola Negra’

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Anthony Haden-Guest accuses Libbie Mugrabi of keeping 97 cartoons in Hamptons home

Adam Schrader, Charges dropped against woman accused in $45K Flagler Museum check fraud

Vogue

Ariana Marsh, A Visit to The Broad’s Engaging New Yoko Ono Exhibition

Art Spell is a subscription-based daily roundup of art news and reviews to help you stay current with what’s being reported on in the visual arts community. The profits from Art Spell are donated to organizations supporting art journalists and writers. 

Art in America

Aliza Shvarts, Kinlaw’s Performances Are High Stakes, No Net.

McKenzie Wark, Ren Light Pan Dramatizes the Dilemma of the Trans Artist.

The Art Newspaper

Helen Stoilas, Bad moon rising: AI debate erupts over ‘colourised’ version of a classic Ansel Adams photo

Gareth Harris, Rediscovered Leonora Carrington painting to go on show for the first time at London’s Freud Museum

Dale Berning Sawa, French project uses AI to visualise how climate change will affect heritage sites

Alton Yan, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts gifted collection of nearly 2,000 photographs

Anni Irish, Whitney Museum workers rallied outside fundraising gala amid contract negotiations

Menachem Wecker, Artist-brothers’ Kennedy Center project aims to unite the US in divisive times

Artforum

Alex Jovanovich, Smells Like Fete: The Anticlimactic Glamour of the 2026 Met Gala

From the Editors, Trump Re-Erects Statue of Slave-Owner in Washington, DC

From the Editors, Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian Launch Menorca Residency with Hauser & Wirth

From the Editors, Cheryl Finley Wins 2026 David C. Driskell Prize

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Art Basel Paris Releases 2026 Exhibitor List: Who’s In? Who’s Out?

Vittoria Benzine, Lost Leonora Carrington Painting Emerges After More Than 80 Years

Vittoria Benzine, $102 Million Louvre Heist Is Getting the Film Treatment

Min Chen, Giant T. Rex Fossil Could Net a Monster Price at Sotheby’s

Richard Whiddington, Unpublished Beethoven Manuscript Hits the Auction Block

Richard Whiddington, Lalanne’s Playful Frog Fountains Surface at Auction

Cathy Fan, 4 Must-See Shows at Gallery Weekend Beijing

ARTnews

Julie Brener Davich, Heritage Auctions Taps Samantha Anderson for New Position Combining Legal and Business Development Roles

Daniel Cassady, Art Basel Paris Names 206 Exhibitors for This Year’s Edition, the First Under a New Director

EDITOR’S PICK - From the Editors, The 100 Best Artworks About America: These works bear witness to centuries of American history and American change.

Alex Greenberger, How We Complied Our List of the 100 Best Artworks About America

Lilyanna D’Amato, Trump Reinstalls Monument to Founding Father, Slave Owner Removed in 2020

Harrison Jacobs, Christie’s Names Billionaire François-Henri Pinault Chairman, Signaling End of Tenure for Guillaume Cerutti

Daniel Cassady, Donald Newhouse, Publishing Heir and Brother of Si Newhouse, Dies at 96

Daniel Cassady, Heir Says Cézanne Watercolor Shown in Basel Was Lost During Nazi Era

Brian Boucher, ‘Prediction Markets’ Come to Art Auctions: Now You Can Bet on Basquiat and Monet, Courtesy of Kalshi

Daniel Cassady, Brian Boucher and Harrison Jacobs, Five Questions for Five Advisors on the May Marquee Sales

Andy Battaglia, King Arthur Manuscript Hidden in a Private Collection for 700 Years Is Coming to Auction

Alex Greenberger, Collectors Anita and Poju Zabludowicz to Sell $20.1 M. in Art at Christie’s

Alex Greenberger, Paula Kamps, Painter of Tender Works About Memory, Dies at 36

Andy Battaglia, $50,000 Driskell Prize Goes to Cheryl Finley of Spelman College

Howard Halle, Jackson Pollock Transformed American Art—and Was Destroyed by His Own Success

ArtReview

Jenny Wu, Art, Death, Duchamp

From the Editors, Brazilian Police name alleged thief of Matisse works

From the Editors, Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos take on Bergen Assembly

Financial Times

Frieze

Tash Aw, The Terrifying Beauty of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s New Performance

The Guardian

Nadia Khomami, Leonora Carrington work painted during psychiatric confinement to go on show for first time

Hyperallergic

Hakim Bishara, Centuries of Endurance Undergird “In Minor Keys”

Aruna D’Souza, Khaled Sabsabi’s Art of Collective Becoming

Lisa Yin Zhang, Paula Kamps, Painter of Rare Sensitivity, Dies at 36

Isa Farfan, Engaging With Art Can Slow Aging, Study Claims

Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, Fixing the Potholes in NYC’s Cultural Infrastructure

Rhea Nayyar, The Louvre Heist Is Coming to a Cinema Near You

The Los Angeles Times

The New York Times

Valeriya Safronova, Florentina Holzinger’s 9-Hour Spectacle Pushes the Limits of Body Art

Ray Mark Rinaldi, For Rent: A One-Bedroom Coyote House

Observer

Christa Terry, The Gordon Parks Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Gala Made the Argument for Art as Activism

Puck

Marion Maneker, Condition Report: Sotheby’s Caroline Seabolt & Ashkan Baghestani

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Taipei Dangdai website and email go dark after 2026 fair cancellation

Adam Schrader, Prosecutors drop Art Basel graffiti case against artist

Adam Schrader, Plea talks underway in case over stolen Courbet painting

Adam Schrader, Death penalty sought in Capital Jewish Museum shooting case

Adam Schrader, Brazilian police make arrests in Matisse library heist probe

Adam Schrader, Copyright Office faces lawsuit over ‘Suryast’ A.I.-assisted artwork

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Suryast complaint against U.S. Copyright Office

Wallpaper

Nick Levine, Andrew Heard’s provocative post-pop art is ripe for rediscovery

Hannah Silver, Jack White on his first art exhibition: ‘You have to get your ego out of the way’

The Wall Street Journal

Michael J. Lewis, ‘Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship’ Review: Buildings Born on Parchment

Whitehot

Serena Hanzhi Wang, Fragments of Venus: Lesley Bodzy at Dmincubator Gallery

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Sophia Kishkovsky, Barrage of Russian missiles damages museums, library and theatre in Kyiv

Catherine Hickley, Heir says Cezanne watercolour in Basel show was lost due to Nazi persecution

Gareth Harris, Arthurian manuscript could make magic at Christie’s London

Scarlet Cheng, Kelly Akashi and friends celebrate Altadena’s resilience after Los Angeles wildfires

Hadani Ditmars, Finalists for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s top contemporary art prize, revealed

Anna Brady, Lisson Grove’s galleries collaborate to promote London’s unsung art district

Cyrus Naji, Book reveals how Chintz—India’s precious textile pattern—became a precolonial global export

Bendor Grosvenor, Comment | The flaws in the plan to charge entry to British museums

From the Editors, Hole in one: artist-designed mini golf course heads to London

Artforum

From the Editors, Sonia Boyce on René Magritte, Lygia Clark, and the Art of Improvisation

From the Editors, Ukrainian Museums and Cultural Sites Damaged by Russian Attack

From the Editors, Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos Named Convenors for Norway’s Bergen Assembly

From the Editors, Husband of Gallerist Brent Sikkema Found Guilty of Ordering His Killing

From the Editors, Wolfgang Tillmans Awarded 2026 Roswitha Haftmann Prize

Artnet

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Gala Season! Shaggy and Jewel Hit the Whitney, Henry Taylor and Pharrell Toast Gordon Parks, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

EDITOR’S PICK - Richard Whiddington, Kalshi Rolls Out Prediction Markets Tied to Art Auctions: The firm has promised more products in time for the fall auctions.

Jo Lawson-Tancred, U.K. Museum Races to Acquire 18th-Century Portrait of Black Gardener

Richard Whiddington, Long-Lost 17th-Century Altarpiece Paintings Recovered After Nearly 100 Years

Vittoria Benzine, One of the Rarest King Arthur Manuscripts Could Fetch Millions at Auction

Richard Whiddington, How the Great Pyramid of Giza Has Withstood Millennia of Earthquakes

Margaret Carrigan, Trophy Buyers Drive Decorative Art Sales

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian to Launch New Residency Program in Menorca

Daniel Cassady, Nick Doyle’s AI Oracle at Perrotin is Part Influencer, Part Therapist, Part Snake Oil Salesman

Harrison Jacobs, See Inside the Belarus Free Theatre’s Venice Exhibition on Art Under Authoritarianism

Brian Boucher, Miami Politician Admits to Hiring ‘Jew Hater’ Billboard Trucks Targeting Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Art Basel Miami Beach

Alex Greenberger, Tess Jaray, Influential Painter of Understated Abstractions, Dies at 88

Andy Battaglia, Russian Strike on Kyiv Damages National Art Museum of Ukraine

Harrison Jacobs, Taiwanese Pop Star Is the Buyer of $20 M. Matisse Painting at Sotheby’s

Daniel Cassady, Long-Lost Lucas Valdés Paintings Resurface at Auction Amid Spain’s Restitution Battles

Brianna J. Heath, Detroit’s MOCAD Reopens with a New Vision and a New Kind of Leadership

Tessa Solomon, Venice Biennale’s Kazakh Pavilion Roiled by Controversy after Artwork Fails to Make It on View

ArtReview

Travis Diehl, What Would Orwell Think of the Mormon ‘Animal Farm’?

Qingyuan Deng, Lionel Wendt: The Politics of the Male Nude

From the Editors, Tess Jaray, painter and teacher inspired by architecture, 1937–2026

From the Editors, Ho Tzu Nyen wins Fukuoka Grand Prize

Financial Times

Rebecca Nicholson, Haroun Hayward is painting the English landscape – to a techno beat

Frieze

Alex Bacon, N. Dash’s Works Look to Their Surroundings

Olivia Noss, ‘QUEER ART IN THE GDR?’ Reads Queerness Between the Lines

Toby Üpson, Must-See: Alex Farrar Dismantles the Myth of Homeownership

The Guardian

Tiago Rogero, The mural project honouring the Black cultural heritage of Rio de Janeiro – photo essay

David Smith, How Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury cartoons captured America: ‘One of our nation’s greatest journalists’

Nadia Khomami, ‘Writing is exactly like love – you need to do it in the dark’: novelist Leila Slimani on starting a new chapter in her life

Hyperallergic

John Yau, The In-Between Worlds of Larissa Borteh

Emma Cieslik, Trump Re-Erects Monument of Enslaver Removed in 2020

Isa Farfan, Miami Graffiti Legend Eric Alan Hirt “Eson” Killed in Train Strike

Rhea Nayyar, Ansel Adams Trust Decries Dealer’s Sale of Photo Colorized Using AI

Hannah Benson, The Private Worlds of Charlotte Brontë and Octavia E. Butler

Alex Paik, Haegue Yang’s Constellations for a Divided Korea

The Los Angeles Times

Solvej Schou, ‘The future of art’: A first look at the video installation that’ll light up LACMA’s Wilshire bridge

The New York Times

Elaine Sciolino, Bringing a Giant Canvas Back to Life, as Museum Visitors Watch

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha, Screening at Cannes: Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Beyond Mysticism, The Modern Northwest” at the Seattle Art Museum

Jordan Riefe, Two Houses, One Legend: A New Museum Shows Another Side of Frida Kahlo

Elisa Carollo, Kiran Nadar’s Ambition to Put Indian Art On the World Stage

Puck

Glenn Adamson, Hot Hand: Patrick Bongoy

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Autopsy records detail brutal attack at center of Brent Sikkema case in Brazil

Adam Schrader, Brent Sikkema murder case in Brazil awaits key ruling after Daniel Sikkema conviction

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Lewis Jacobsen, Requiem for a Dreamscape

Apollo Magazine

From the Editors, Edvard Munch’s factory work

Edward Behrens, ‘In the art world you’re not only buying an object, you’re buying a relationship’: Andreas Pampoulides

Lucy Waterson, The family with a fine line in Bauhaus art

From the Editors, French government selects architects for €1bn Louvre redevelopment

Anna Brady, Pollock and Brâncuși break records. Will there be a trickle-down effect?

From the Editors, The rush to see the Bayeux Tapestry

Art Asia Pacific

Emily Ng, Ho Tzu Nyen Wins 2026 Fukuoka Grand Prize

Art in America

Emily Watlington, The 21st Century’s Biggest Art Trend is Not a Style. But Once You See It, You’ll Notice It Everywhere.

Elle Pérez, Elle Pérez Gets Personal with the Next-Gen Collectors Changing the Art World

The Art Newspaper

Joe Ware, ‘Lost forever, all because of this new tax’: fears for UK church heritage as VAT relief ends

Gareth Harris, A modern Tower of Babel? Pope Leo XIV warns against artificial intelligence

Ben Luke, A brush with... Elyse Gonzales, director of San Antonio’s Ruby City art centre

EDITOR’S PICK - Daniel Grant, Fee or free? How entry charges affect museums in the US: While some leaders in the sector say free entry is an ideal worth pursuing to widen access, others say it imperils institutions financially.

Joe Ware, London’s Royal Society of Arts launches new annual summer exhibition

Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, Controversy resurfaces in Colombia over treasure-filled San José shipwreck

Artforum

David Rimanelli, The Sage in the Pencil-Thin Suit: Marcel Duchamp at MoMA

Helen Molesworth, Marcel Duchamp and the MoMA Exhibition That Didn’t Ask Questions

Hélène Fauquet, Hélène Fauquet on Giorgio De Chirico, Dario Argento, and Drexciya

Pauline J. Yao, Edge Conditions: The Restless Video Art of Hong Kong’s Ellen Pau

Artnet

Margaret Carrigan, Who Won New York’s $2.5 Billion Auction Week?

Vittoria Benzine, Ukrainian Museums and Cultural Sites Damaged in Massive Russian Attack

Richard Whiddington, Long-Lost 17th-Century Altarpiece Paintings Recovered After Nearly 100 Years

Andrew Russeth, The New York Fairs Are Done. What Remains?

Kenny Schachter, Eyes Wide Open! Kenny Schachter Dishes on Delinquent Dealers, Secret Deals, and That Other ‘Salvator Mundi’

Vittoria Benzine, Val Kilmer’s Iconic ‘Top Gun’ Iceman Helmet Is Up for Grabs

Richard Whiddington, Rediscovered Rubens Notebook Page Goes on View for the First Time

Jo Lawson-Tancred, U.K. Arts Center Lands Seismic $122.4M Gift

Vittoria Benzine, Three Dinosaur Fossils Are Up for Grabs at This New York Art Gallery

Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, What New York’s $2.5 Billion Auction Week Means for the Market

Vittoria Benzine, How JR Transformed Paris’s Oldest Bridge Into a Massive Grotto

Andrew Russeth, Elle Pérez Envisions New Residency Built on Family Legacy

Richard Whiddington, A 4,500-Year-Old Building Near Stonehenge Has Been Brought Back to Life

Min Chen, Andy Warhol’s Patek Philippe Poised for $400,000 Sale—and Other Hot Finds on the Market

ARTnews

Alex Greenberger, 46 Museum Shows and Biennials to See This Summer

Harrison Jacobs, Tickets to See the Bayeux Tapestry Will Cost As Much As $45 A Piece

Harrison Jacobs, Ansel Adams Trust Slams Gallery for AI-Generated Work at AIPAD Photography Show

Anne Doran, Historically Accurate Replica of 4500-Year-Old Building to Open at Stonehenge

Daniel Cassady, Jury Convicts Daniel Sikkema in Killing of New York Dealer Brent Sikkema

Leigh Anne Miller, Commission of Fine Arts Approves Trump’s Controversial Triumphal Arch Celebrating ‘Greatness, Freedom, and Posterity’

Harrison Jacobs, Christie’s Kiran Nadar Exhibition Is the Latest Indicator of the South Asian Art Market’s Growing Importance

Andy Battaglia, White Stripes Frontman Jack White Is Showing Art at Damien Hirst’s Gallery

Maximilíano Durón, Muriel Hasbun, Artist Whose Work Poignantly Recounted the Salvadoran Diaspora and the Fraughtness of Memory, Dies at 64

ArtReview

Qingyuan Deng, Lionel Wendt: The Politics of the Male Nude

From the Editors, Brazilian Police name alleged thief of Matisse works

From the Editors, Wolfgang Tillmans wins 2026 Roswitha Haftmann Prize

BOMB

Andrew Woolbright, Emily Kraus by Andrew Woolbright

Cultured

Eve Eismann, The 12 Must-See Art Shows To Kick Off Summer in the Hamptons

Sam Falb, Are You a Queer Artist Heading to Fire Island This Summer? Pack This Book.The Guardian

Cath Clarke, Leonora in the Morning Light review – pioneering British artist who fled convention for the surrealists

Catherine Slessor, Criminal review – homelessness show delivers a rage-making punch in the gut

Chloë Ashby, Origami dragons and a story arcade! The joy of museums aimed at children

Hyperallergic

Sháńdíín Brown, The Invincible Spirit of Edmonia Lewis

Bryan Martin, For Ceija Stojka, Memory Is Survival

Jasmine Weber, How Betye Saar Set Black Dolls Free

Eurídice Arratia, Performance Cuts Through the Noise at the Venice Biennale

Valentina Di Liscia, Husband Found Guilty of Scheming Murder of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema

Daniel Larkin, An Artist’s MFA Show Confronts Columbia University Over Gaza

Isa Farfan, Human Connection Cuts Through Technology at Focus Art Fair

Rhea Nayyar, Workers Push to Rename Wexner Center for the Arts Over Epstein Ties

Bryan Karl, Karla Knight’s Cosmic Conspiracies

Julie Schneider, Anni Albers Wasn’t Afraid to Start From Zero

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel

The Los Angeles Times

Jane Horowitz, Photographer Catherine Opie is everywhere all at once this spring

The New York Times

Zachary Small, Julia Halperin and Tim F. Schneider, How Art Auctions Choreographed a $2.5 Billion Comeback

Aruna D’Souza, Letting Her Art (and Birds) Do the Talking

Observer

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Paula Rego, Dance Among Thorns” at MUNCH in Oslo

Dian Parker, 50 Years of Groundbreaking Work: Kunstmuseum Basel Puts Helen Frankenthaler Front and Center

Daniel Grant, From Midnight Casts to Authorized Editions: Understanding the Market for Posthumously Produced Art

Elisa Carollo, Nick Doyle’s “Mirror, Mirror” Turns the American Dream Inside Out

Jasmine Lobe, Dinner, Dance and Devotion: Inside American Ballet Theatre’s Glittering Spring Gala

Elisa Carollo, The Carnegie International Tests What “We” Still Means in a Fractured World

Naima Morelli, An Art-Lover’s Guide to Tunis’ Ground-Up Contemporary Scene

T Magazine

Penelope Green, John Marion, the ‘God of Auctioneers in America,’ Dies at 92

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Robert Indiana publisher fights bid to seize works after $102.2M verdict

Adam Schrader, Ansel Adams trust condemns Danziger Gallery’s A.I.-colorized ‘perversion’

Adam Schrader, Trump-appointed commission approves arch despite fierce opposition

Adam Schrader, Daniel Sikkema convicted in plot to kill art dealer Brent Sikkema

Vogue

Stephanie Sporn, Amoako Boafo Drew on Venice’s Rich Creative Heritage for His First Solo Show in Italy

Stephanie Sporn, Five Whirlwind Days in Italy, at and Beyond the Venice Biennale

The Wall Street Journal

Peter Plagens, ‘Hans Hofmann’ Review: Yale University Art Gallery’s Lessons in Abstraction

From the Editors, Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of May 24

Brian P. Kelly, Carol Bove Makes Magic With Metal at the Guggenheim

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Alex Kitnick, Marcel Duchamp

Apollo Magazine

Ivan Day, How to party like it’s 1769

Owen Pritchard, Merthyr Tydfil à la mode

From the Editors, Four things to see: Flowers

From the Editors, Acquisitions of the month: April 2026

Art in America

Emily Cox, Two of Modernism’s Lesbian Icons Get the Novel Treatment

Andy Battaglia and Emily Watlington, Your Summer Guide: 20 Art World Highlights Not to Miss

The Art Newspaper

EDITOR’S PICK - Gareth Harris, Museums in England largely oppose proposal to charge admission for foreign tourists: A storm of opinion is raging in the arts world on whether an admission fee is needed, with some museums arguing the income would be offset by a loss of other revenue

Gareth Harris, Chanel gives Centre Pompidou financial boost with new five-year partnership

Helen Stoilas, US Commission of Fine Arts approves Trump’s Washington, DC arch despite public opposition

Gabriella Angeleti, New residency in upstate New York will give Indigenous artists access to neon fabrication studio

Anny Shaw, London exhibition explores untold history of how homelessness was criminalised

Rowland Bagnall, Shoot and branch: new photography book highlights the enduring majesty of trees

Ben Luke, New York auctions, James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain, Edvard Munch—podcast

Martin Bailey, Why did Van Gogh sign his paintings as ‘Vincent’?

From the Editors, Mexican film-makers to co-host Serpentine Summer Party

Cyrus Naji, India’s Kiran Nadar Museum to take over Christie’s London headquarters this summer

Artforum

Susan Best, In Rememory Of: Histories Lost and Found at the 2026 Sydney Biennale

Pauline J. Yao, Edge Conditions: The Restless Video Art of Hong Kong’s Ellen Pau

From the Editors, Krakow’s MOCAK Sacks Director Adam Budak, Angering Artists

From the Editors, Chanel and Centre Pompidou Announce 5-Year Strategic Partnership

From the Editors, Thomas J. Price and Tavares Strachan Make Shortlist for Billie Holiday Monument Designs

From the Editors, Wassan Al-Khudhairi Appointed Artistic Director of 2027 Art Basel Qatar

Artnet

Richard Whiddington, Christie’s Posts ‘Rock Solid’ Contemporary Sale, Led by Marian Goodman’s Gerhard Richters

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Tracey Emin, Katharina Grosse, and More Rally to Raise $2.7 Million for South London Gallery

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Chanel Expands Support for Centre Pompidou Amid $535 Million Renovation

Min Chen, The New Costume Institute Show Gets Under the Skin

Vittoria Benzine, Robert Mnuchin’s Storied Art Gallery Townhouse Lists for $35 Million

Katya Kazakina, Sotheby’s Buoyant $303.4 Million Modern Art Evening Sale: By the Numbers

Sonia Manalili and Andrew Russeth, How Is Arts Patronage Changing?

ARTnews

Leigh Anne Miller, Chanel Renews Financial Support of Centre Pompidou During Long-Term Renovation

Andy Battaglia, Eternal Flame, Burning for 1,200 Years, Survives Blaze at Buddhist Hall in Japan

Daniel Cassady, Spain Threatens to Oust Reina Sofía Director Over Missing Artworks and Finances

Tessa Solomon, Citing Epstein Ties, Wexner Union Demands Leslie Wexner’s Name be Dropped from Art Center

Brian Boucher, Trump Officials Cite a Century-Old Report As Congressional Approval for 250-Foot DC Arch, in a Move Called ‘Tortured’ and ‘Laughable’

Maximilíano Durón, A New Residency Aims to Give Indigenous Artists the Tools to Make Art in Neon

Alex Greenberger, Zohran Mamdani Visited MoMA PS1’s Greater New York—and Loved It

Tessa Solomon, ‘Woman Impressionist’ No More: A New Catalogue Raisonné Restores Eva Gonzalès’s Legacy

ArtReview

David Terrien, The Interview: Amar Kanwar

Financial Times

Jay Cheshes, Inside the technicolour world of Jack White

Kitty Grady, Photographer Walter Pfeiffer: ‘Everyone else my age is already in an asylum’

Frieze

Ira Sachs and Angel Lambo, ‘Truth Is Essence, Not Fact’: Ira Sachs on Peter Hujar’s Day

Ivana Cholakova, Natasha Tontey Recasts the Heroine on Her Own Terms

The Guardian

Skye Sherwin, Near death experiences, ‘crip memes’ and the tyranny of the DWP: the new exhibition powered by illness and disability

Jonathan Jones, Lo-fi sci-fi, hollow metal people and Churchill’s big guns – the week in art

Eddy Frankel, Hulda Guzmán review – lizards and ghosts gather for an art freakout in the rainforest

Hyperallergic

Valentina Di Liscia, Art Movements: Larry Gagosian Heads to the Big Screen

Elizabeth Ferrer, I’m a Chicana Curator. This Is Why I Removed Cesar Chavez From My Show

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Required Reading

Dan Schindel, A New Richard Avedon Documentary Lets Him Down

Rhea Nayyar, Stonewall Monument Named Among Most Endangered Sites in the US

Isa Farfan, Robert Lugo’s Colossal Ode to Puerto Rico Rises in Madison Square Park

MOMUS

Najrin Islam, New Geographies of the Sacred: Shahana Rajani at Nottingham Contemporary

The New York Times

Julia Jacobs, Women’s Museum Bill Sinks Amid Dispute Over Trump and Trans Issues

The New Yorker

Max Norman, August Sander’s Enormous Attempt to Capture a Lost World

Observer

Michaela Zee, Shaggy, a Perfect Sunset and $6.3 Million: Inside the 2026 Whitney Gala

Stephen Garrett, Nicolas Winding Refn On the Genesis of ‘Her Private Hell’

Madeleine Seidel, Barry X Ball Connects the Secular and Sacred in “The Shape of Time”

Elisa Carollo, Christie’s Wednesday Sales Achieved $162.7 Million as Bonhams’ 20th & 21st Century Evening Sale Topped $22 Million

Gillian Harvey, 10 Books Worth Reading Even After You’ve Seen the Movie

Sculpture

Maureen Sullivan, Nature’s Order: A Conversation with Leandro Erlich

Maria Carolina Baulo, Sociedades microscópicas: Una Conversación con Adriana Antidín

The Wall Street Journal

Chris Cornelis, Ittai Gradel, Who Discovered Massive Thefts at the British Museum, Dies at 61

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Art in America

Jordan Amirkhani, How Former Fashion Designer Emma Safir Turns Fabric into Beguiling Paintings

The Art Newspaper

Kabir Jhala, Richter and Judd works top Christie’s solid if not stellar sale of post-war and contemporary art

Hadani Ditmars, Israeli organisation threatens legal action against Canadian Museum for Human Rights over Palestine exhibition

Alton Yan, Authorities in New York return more than 650 looted antiquities, valued at nearly $14m, to India

Louisa Buck, Boats and trains, not planes: reflections on a greener—but sometimes greenwashed—Venice Biennale

Richard Unwin, Venice show brings together two leading figures from the Polish avant-garde

Elena Goukassian, Final proposals for Billie Holiday monument in New York City revealed

Gareth Harris, British Museum reveals ticket prices for Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

Aimee Dawson, Lagos curator establishes private art society with focus on cross-disciplinary exchange

Artforum

From the Editors, Robust Sales at Sotheby’s, Phillips Suggest Art Market Upswing

From the Editors, A Blade of Grass Names 2026 “In Fellowship” Cohort

From the Editors, New List Names Eleven Most Endangered Historical Sites in US

From the Editors, Sainsbury Centre Receives £91.2 Million Donation for Refurbishments

Artnet

Richard Whiddington, Marian Goodman’s Gerhard Richters Total $78.8 Million in $162.7 Million Christie’s Sale

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Tilda Swinton Is Bringing a New Performance Piece to Guggenheim Bilbao

Vittoria Benzine, How Did Phillips Pull Off a $115.2 Million ‘White Glove’ Sale? Here’s What the Numbers Say

Min Chen, How Janette Beckman Captured Music History in Real Time

Richard Whiddington, Willem de Kooning’s Rarely Seen Drawings Come Into Focus in Chicago Show

ARTnews

Brian Boucher, Marian Goodman’s $35.1 M. Richter ‘Candle’ Leads Christie’s Tepid $162.7 M. Trio of Postwar and Contemporary Sales

Maximilíano Durón and Brian Boucher, Gerhard Richter ‘Candle’ From Estate of Revered Dealer Marian Goodman Falls Short of a Record at $35.1 M.

Anne Doran, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Announces a Major Gift of Nearly 2000 Photographs

George Nelson, Behind Christie’s $1 B. Blockbuster Result, the Market Still Looks Uneven

Harrison Jacobs, Yinka Shonibare Joins Mennour, a Fake Fake Monet, and More: Industry Moves for May 20, 2026

Tessa Solomon, Paris Judge Rejects Bid to Suspend the Replacement of Notre-Dame’s Windows

Andy Battaglia, Harald Metzkes, Postwar German Painter of ‘World Theater,’ Dies at 97

Lilyanna D’Amato, Whitney Gala Honors Julie Mehretu, Benefactor of Museum’s ‘Free Under 25’ Initiative

Leigh Anne Miller, Bharti Kher Commissioned by Powerhouse Parramatta, Australia’s New Cultural Center Opening Later This Year

Maximilíano Durón, Tilda Swinton to Perform at Guggenheim Bilbao in June

Maximilíano Durón, National Trust Names America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, Including Sites Targeted by Trump Administration

ArtReview

Helen Charman, Why Olga Tokarczuk Is Wrong About AI

From the Editors, Wassan Al-Khudhairi appointed artistic director of 2027 Art Basel Qatar

Financial Times

Chrisopher Anderson, From war zones to the White House: Christopher Anderson’s photography

Frieze

Anya Harrison, Vladislav Markov’s Theatre of Dislocation

The Guardian

Jess Kartner-Morley, Louis Vuitton revives Keith Haring collaboration at lavish New York show

Eddy Frankel, Christo: Air review – surprisingly profound manifestation of the wrapper’s impossible dream

Lyndsey Winship, Uncaged+ review – elegant sketches of Lee Krasner and her life with Jackson Pollock

Hyperallergic

Taliesin Thomas, The Divine Powers of “Chicken Linda”

Valentina Di Liscia, Guggenheim to Screen Artistic Portrait of Soccer Legend Zinédine Zidane

Sarah Cascone, As Democracy Falters, a New York Museum Champions Activism

Matt Stromberg, CalArts President Booed During Commencement Speech

Rhea Nayyar, Who Should Design NYC’s New Billie Holiday Monument?

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering F. John Sierra, Valie Export, and Mary Lovelace O’Neal

The Los Angeles Times

Mara Eakin, Part root vegetable, part deity: Inside Everything Is Terrible’s new Meow Wolf L.A. installation

The New York Times

EDITOR’S PICK - Zachary Small and Robin Pogrebin, Is Museum Wall Text the Next Political Battleground?: The Smithsonian has changed or eliminated some interpretive language that typically accompanies exhibited artworks. Critics call this self-censorship.

Holland Cotter, A Landmark Show Returns, Looking for Blackness in a Personal Way

Travis Diehl, An Artist Ponders Pond Scum, Humans and the Meaning of Life

Observer

Paco Barragán, Global Art Biennials: Renovation, Revelation—or Repetition?

Kinvara Balfour, Don’t Miss: Giles Duley’s “Distortion / Memory / Resilience” at Sutton Tower

Elisa Carollo, Sotheby’s $304M Modern Evening Auction Confirms the Market Has Found Its Footing

Puck

Marion Maneker, The Art Market’s Cut-Your-Loss Bounce

T Magazine

Precious Adesina, An Artist Re-Examines Her Catholic Upbringing

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, The Hole Gallery rent case quietly dropped after landlord alleged $60,000 owed

Adam Schrader, Court Documents: The Hole Gallery Bowery and Tribeca Rent Cases

Adam Schrader, UT Austin officials scrutinized anti-fascist student art show over compliance concerns

Adam Schrader, FOIA Documents: UT Austin Emails on Anti-Fascist Student Art Show

Vanity Fair

Nate Freeman, Muse to Muse: 10 Superstar Athletes and Creative Visionaries Tell VF About Their Mutual Admiration

Nate Freeman, A Guessing Game: Who Bought the $181 Million Pollock at the $1.1 Billion Christie’s Auction?

Wallpaper

Hannah Silver, Barry X Ball marries classical art with technical methodologies on a monastic island in Venice

Nargess Banks, In London, Hauser & Wirth offers a rare glimpse into Francis Picabia’s experimental world

Lisa Wright, Meet Marina Abramović’s favourite new band: emerging indie group Mary In The Junkyard

The Wall Street Journal

Kelly Crow, Banksy’s Market Passes Its First Big Test Since His Identity Reveal

Whitehot

Isabelle Bergmann, Rose Wylie’s Henri, Egypt…Bette, Bear at David Zwirner Paris

Margherita Artoni, Julie Mehretu — Perceptual Infrastructure and the Post-Retrospective Condition

J. Scott Orr, The Studio, Unraveled: Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner

John Drury, Sammy Sammy’s Haunted Place in the Woods

Noah Becker, Last chance to see UPSIDE DOWN ZEBRA, the most colorful show of the year at The Watermill Center

Raphy Sarkissian, Douglas Melini: An Order of Things

Paul Laster, Tracing How Matter Retains Memory — The Art of Allyson Jeong and Diane Tuft

Byron Armstrong, ArtLucaya: Bahamian Artists “Dream Big” at The Grand Bahama Art Festival

Edward Waisnis, Matt Dillon’s Exurberance for Painting

Adam Zucker, A vast exhibition of urology themed art in various media from more than 60 artists across the globe.

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Art in America

Emily Watlington, Malo Chapuy Reimagines Medieval Art on the Cover of our New Talent Issue

The Art Newspaper

Carlie Porterfield, Bidding battle for Matisse leads Sotheby’s $303.3m Modern art evening sale in New York

Benjamin Sutton, Sold-out Phillips auction in New York brings in $115.2m, more than double 2025 result

Nathan Eddy, Expansion plans for Rome’s Galleria Borghese draw fierce response

Aimee Dawson, Sainsbury Centre receives one of largest ever UK museum donations

Alison C. Meier, Stonewall monument targeted by Trump administration among the US’s most endangered historic places

Andrew Pulver, Tate Britain’s James McNeill Whistler exhibition aims to show he was more than just a combative ‘coxcomb’

Artforum

EDITOR’S PICK - Harmon Siegel, When Criticism Was Life and Death: On “Problems of Criticism” and judgment in times of crisis.

Glenn Adamson, Walking With Giants: The Return of the Totemic

Paul Chan, Paul Chan on ICE Whistles and the Politics of Sound

From the Editors, Christie’s Auction Rakes in $1.1 Billion as Pollock Sells For Triple Record Price

From the Editors, 98,000 People Rush to Defense of Arts Trustee Misan Harriman in Wake of Antisemitism Accusations

From the Editors, Architects for the Louvre’s Billion Dollar Expansion Announced

From the Editors, Edgar Calel Honored with $75,000 Sam Gilliam Award

Artnet

Katya Kazakina, Sotheby’s Hauls In $304 Million at Modern Art Auction, as Market Momentum Continues

Vittoria Benzine, Phillips Posts $115.2 Million ‘White Glove’ Sale, Big Gain Over Last Year

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dubai Plans a Massive New Museum for Digital Art

Richard Whiddington, Six Artists Vie to Design Billie Holiday Monument in New York

Richard Whiddington, Identity of Pompeii Victim Revealed in High-Tech Scans

Vittoria Benzine, Ancient Treasures From Lost Egyptian City Head to San Francisco

Katya Kazakina, $1.1 Billion Christie’s Auctions Shatter Records for Pollock, Brancusi, Rothko

ARTnews

Daniel Cassady, Sotheby’s Pulls In $303.9 M. in a Solid but Subdued Modern Evening Sale Led by $48 M. Matisse

Julie Brener Davich, Phillips Modern & Contemporary Sale Nets $115.2 M., With Strong Results for Women Artists

Leigh Anne Miller, 1,200-Year-Old Limestone Lintel was Inadvertently Repatriated to Mexico Instead of to Guatemala

Tessa Solomon, Canadian Museum of Human Rights Threatened With Legal Action Over Palestinian Nakba Show

Brian Boucher, Hamburg Culture Prize Renamed After Namesake’s Nazi Ties Emerge

Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, In Performance Series, Artists Tackle the Nature of Images, and Reality, in the Face of AI

George Nelson, Art Lender Accuses Maddox Gallery of Inflating Value of Art Used as Collateral—’Bizarre and Irrational’ Claim, Says Gallery

Daniel Cassady, Sotheby’s Launches Museum Partnership Series, Starting with Exhibition by New York’s Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Brian Boucher, After Whistleblower Complaint, Palm Springs Art Museum Declines to Release Report on Allegations of Fraud and Theft, Claims They Are ‘Not Substantiated’

Alex Greenberger, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky’s Dallas Home Could Be Yours at a Discount, for $17.5 M.

Andy Battaglia, Art in America’s Summer “New Talent” Issue Names 20 Artists to Watch

Maximilíano Durón, Edgar Calel Wins $75,000 Sam Gilliam Award

ArtReview

From the Editors, ArtReview Podcast | Episode 7: Zineb Sedira

From the Editors, Venice Biennale 2026 Highlights: Off-Site Exhibitions

From the Editors, Edgar Calel wins 2026 Sam Gilliam Award

From the Editors, Theme and title announced for Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu’s 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale

The Guardian

Tom Service, Fantastic visions and cosmic rhythms: how Whistler is making me see – and hear – differently

Andrew Lawrence, ‘These are artifacts from history’: exhibition celebrates objects of sporting victory

Olivia McEwan, Winston Churchill: The Painter review – We will daub them on the beaches

Dee Jefferson, ‘I can use it, I can abuse it’: Tony Albert spent decades collecting racist ‘Aboriginalia’. Now he wants to turn yours into art

Hyperallergic

Isa Farfan, Nicole Kidman’s Billion-Dollar Breakfast at Christie’s

Diba Mohtasham, A Persian Garden Blooms on Governors Island

Rhea Nayyar, “Gaza Love” Monument Unveiled in Paterson, NJ

Tara Anne Dalbow, The Painted Book Cover Is Back

Daria Simone Harper, The Black American Artists Who Dazzled Post-War Paris

The New York Times

Elly Fishman, For the Obama Center, Mark Bradford Paints a Fierce and Luminous Chicago

Observer

Merin Curotto, Letters to the Editor: Remembering Rex Reed

Elisa Carollo, At TEFAF New York, the Masterpiece Market Had Plenty to Celebrate

Andrew Goldman, Inside Rex Reed’s Dakota: An Afternoon of Unrepentant Opinions and Hollywood Tales

James Grissom, What Rex Reed Taught Me About Truth, Kindness and Writing

Elisa Carollo, Christie’s $1.1 Billion Night Confirms the Health of the Market’s Upper End

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Art teacher’s Charlie Kirk firing lawsuit quietly ends

Adam Schrader, Opera Gallery investor suit moves twice after venue fight

Adam Schrader, Art supply chain Michaels, Chicago artist Pose move to settle marketing lawsuit

Adam Schrader, Magistrate recommends limited Sotheby’s, Christie’s subpoenas in Yves Bouvier art dispute

Adam Schrader, Norton Museum settles dispute with Verity Partners

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